{"id":168933,"date":"2020-10-15T21:12:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T19:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/who-africa.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/coronavirus-africa-increase-in-the-number-of-confirmed-covid19-cases-in-africa1?lang=en"},"modified":"2020-10-15T21:12:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T19:12:18","slug":"coronavirus-africa-increase-in-the-number-of-confirmed-covid-19-cases-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/coronavirus-africa-increase-in-the-number-of-confirmed-covid-19-cases-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus &#8211; Africa: Increase in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/thumb\/3ed32d98560fa44\/600\/418\" alt=\"WHO Regional Office for Africa\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>There has been a 20% increase in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases &amp; 86% increase in deaths in the Region compared to the last reporting period.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>For more detailed analysis, read our most recent COVID-19 Situation Report: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3nRLKJU\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3nRLKJU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10 countries account for 86% (1,057,272) of reported COVID-19 cases in the African Region: South Africa, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Algeria, Ghana, Kenya, Cameroon, C&ocirc;te d&rsquo;Ivoire, Madagascar &amp; Zambia. South Africa accounts for 56% of cases.<\/p>\n<p>Full report: http:\/\/bit.ly\/3nRLKJU<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of WHO Regional Office for Africa.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"well well-sm\"><b>Media files<\/b><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/e2859b55e2c1585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/e2859b55e2c1585\" alt=\"WHO Regional Office for Africa\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/e2859b55e2c1585\">Download logo<\/a><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a 20% increase in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases &amp; 86% increase in deaths in the Region compared to the last reporting period. For more detailed analysis, read our most recent COVID-19 Situation Report: https:\/\/bit.ly\/3nRLKJU 10 countries account for 86% (1,057,272) of reported COVID-19 cases in the African Region: South Africa, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-168933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/coronavirus-africa-increase-in-the-number-of-confirmed-covid-19-cases-in-africa.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}