The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the number of reported COVID-19 cases in the WHO African Region has increased to over 38,000.
The WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, gave the update on its official twitter account @WHOAFRO on Friday.
“Comoros has reported its first case of COVID-19.
“Over 38,000 confirmed cases on the African continent – with over 1,600 deaths,” it said.
The figures on the dashboard showed that South Africa, Algeria and Ghana were countries with the highest reported cases on the list.
It showed that South Africa had 5,647 cases and 103 deaths followed by Algeria with 4,006 cases and 450 deaths, while Ghana had 2,074 confirmed cases with 17 deaths.
According to the dashboard, Comoros, Mauritania, Seychelles are countries with the lowest confirmed cases in the region.
It showed that Comoros had only confirmed one case with zero death.
Mauritania, the dashboard showed, was the second country with the lowest confirmed cases with eight reported cases and one death.
Seychelles, the third country with the lowest cases, had recorded 11 confirmed cases with zero death.
Also, the dashboard showed that Nigeria was number four among the countries with the highest cases with 1,932 confirmed cases and 58 deaths.
