{"id":169163,"date":"2020-10-18T10:18:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T08:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/coronavirus-african-union-member-states-reporting-covid19-cases-as-of-17-october-2020-6-pm-eat?lang=en"},"modified":"2020-10-18T10:18:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T08:18:01","slug":"coronavirus-african-union-member-states-reporting-covid-19-cases-as-of-17-october-2020-6-pm-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/coronavirus-african-union-member-states-reporting-covid-19-cases-as-of-17-october-2020-6-pm-eat\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: African Union Member States reporting COVID-19 cases as of 17 October 2020, 6 pm EAT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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African Union Member States (55) reporting COVID-19 cases (1,623,287) deaths (39,597), and recoveries (1,338,219) by region:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Central (59,212 cases; 1,125 deaths; 52,769 recoveries):<\/strong> Burundi (531; 1; 472), Cameroon (21,441; 423; 20,117), CAR (4,855; 62; 1,924), Chad (1,361; 93; 1,138), Congo (5,156; 92; 4,400), DRC (10,999; 302; 10,473), Equatorial Guinea (5,068; 83; 4,954), Gabon (8,869; 54; 8,395), Sao Tome & Principe (932; 15; 896)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Eastern (192,070; 3,619; 120,564):<\/strong> Comoros (502; 7; 485), Djibouti (5,449; 61; 5,372), Eritrea (422; 0; 376), Ethiopia (87,834; 1,337; 41,628), Kenya (44,196; 825; 31,752), Madagascar (16,810; 238; 16,125), Mauritius (407; 10; 361), Rwanda (4,965; 34; 4,664), Seychelles (149; 0; 148), Somalia (3,864; 99; 3,089), South Sudan (2,817; 55; 2,631), Sudan (13,691; 836; 6,764), Tanzania (509; 21; 178), Uganda (10,455; 96; 6,901)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Northern (416,553; 12,419; 313,355):<\/strong> Algeria (53,998; 2,126; 37,856), Egypt (105,159; 6,099; 98,089), Libya (47,845; 699; 26,062), Mauritania (7,585; 163; 7,301), Morocco (167,148; 2,818; 138, 989), Tunisia (34,790; 512; 5,032), Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (28; 2; 26)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Southern (771,355; 19,743; 685,464):<\/strong> Angola (7,222; 234; 3,012), Botswana (3,914; 20; 905), Eswatini (5,746; 115; 5,392), Lesotho (1,833; 42; 961), Malawi (5,852; 181; 4,740), Mozambique (10,612; 73; 8,262), Namibia (12,215; 131; 10,360), South Africa (700,203; 18,370; 629,260), Zambia (15,659; 346; 14,899), Zimbabwe (8,099; 231; 7,673)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Western (184,097; 2,691; 166,067):<\/strong> Benin (2,478, 41; 2,330), Burkina Faso (2,343; 65; 1,718), Cape Verde (7,526; 82; 6,425), Cote d'Ivoire (20,275; 121; 19,953), Gambia (3,649; 118; 2,649), Ghana (47,173; 310; 46,527), Guinea (11,362; 70; 10,420), Guinea-Bissau (2,389; 41; 1,782), Liberia (1,377; 82; 1,264), Mali (3,378; 132; 2,563), Niger (1,209; 69; 1,126), Nigeria (61,194; 1,119; 52,304), Senegal (15,392; 317; 13,756), Sierra Leone (2,325; 73; 1,750), Togo (2,027; 51; 1,500)<\/p>\n

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).<\/i><\/p>\n

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African Union Member States (55) reporting COVID-19 cases (1,623,287) deaths (39,597), and recoveries (1,338,219) by region: Central (59,212 cases; 1,125 deaths; 52,769 recoveries): Burundi (531; 1; 472), Cameroon (21,441; 423; 20,117), CAR (4,855; 62; 1,924), Chad (1,361; 93; 1,138), Congo (5,156; 92; 4,400), DRC (10,999; 302; 10,473), Equatorial Guinea (5,068; 83; 4,954), Gabon (8,869; 54; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169164,"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-169163","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-african-union-member-states-reporting-covid-19-cases-as-of-17-october-2020-6-pm-eat.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169163","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=169163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}