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The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, says COVID-19 cases and deaths are surging in Africa as new, more contagious variants of the virus spread.
The UN health agency disclosed this in a statement posted on its website.
It stated that over 175,000 new COVID-19 cases and more than 6,200 deaths were reported in Africa in the last week, while infections rose by 50 per cent on the continent.
It added that “infections rose by 50 per cent between Dec. 29, 2020 and Jan. 25, 2021, compared with the previous four weeks.
Africa’s COVID-19 death toll hits 89,993 as cases reach 3,515m
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The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent stood at 3,515,047 as of Friday, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said.
According to the health agency’s dashboard, the death toll related to the pandemic in Africa was 89,993 on Friday.
A total of 2,990,890 people infected with COVID-19 have recovered across the continent.
Southern Africa is the most affected region in Africa in terms of the number of confirmed positive cases, followed by the northern Africa region.
The most affected African countries in terms of the number of positive cases include South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, and Ethiopia.
New COVID-19 variants increase as Africa’s records more deaths
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, on Thursday, said that COVID-19 cases and deaths are surging in Africa as new, more contagious variants of the virus spread.
The UN health agency in a statement posted on its website stated that over 175,000 new COVID-19 cases and more than 6,200 deaths were reported in Africa in the last week, while infections rose by 50 per cent on the continent.
It added that “infections rose by 50 per cent between Dec. 29, 2020 and Jan. 25, 2021, compared with the previous four weeks.
New COVID-19 variants fuelling Africa’s second wave – WHO
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, says COVID-19 cases and deaths are surging in Africa as new, more contagious variants of the virus spread.
The UN health agency disclosed this in a statement posted on its website.
It stated that over 175,000 new COVID-19 cases and more than 6,200 deaths were reported in Africa in the last week, while infections rose by 50 per cent on the continent.
It added that “infections rose by 50 per cent between Dec. 29, 2020 and Jan. 25, 2021, compared with the previous four weeks.
Wike moves to resolve South-West PDP crisis
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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has declared that the failure to resolve the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, in the South-West will have an adverse effect on the success of the PDP.
He made this assertion when he met with the Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde and other leaders of the South West PDP at the Government House, Ibadan on Thursday.
Wike, who expressed optimism about possibility of a speedy resolution of the crisis rocking the PDP in the South West, explained that there ought to have been a meeting of PDP stakeholders from the South West on Thursday, but it had to be postponed due to logistics reason