Countries across Africa have recorded more than 850,000 infections and at least 18,000 deaths, according to an AFP tally as of Tuesday.
It has recorded more than 7,000 deaths, although there is concern that fatalities are being under-reported. Africa’s most populous nation has registered 41,000 cases, the second highest tally south of the Sahara, with numbers rising by between 500-700 each day.About 3,000 tests are carried per day on average in a country of around 200 million people — just a tenth of the number conducted in South Africa which has about a quarter of the population.
“Through our modelling, we know we are going to exceed our isolation capacity sooner than later,” Lagos State health commissioner Akin Abayomi told AFP. Earlier this month government lifted restrictions that had cordoned off Nairobi and other hard-hit cities, while announcing that international flights will resume on August 1.
Tiny Djibouti, with a population of around one million, has the second highest case rate in East Africa, with more than 5,000 infections.
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