{"id":169168,"date":"2020-10-18T11:27:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T09:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/coronavirus-african-union-member-states-reporting-covid19-cases-as-of-18-october-2020-9-am-eat?lang=en"},"modified":"2020-10-18T11:27:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T09:27:04","slug":"coronavirus-african-union-member-states-reporting-covid-19-cases-as-of-18-october-2020-9-am-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/coronavirus-african-union-member-states-reporting-covid-19-cases-as-of-18-october-2020-9-am-eat\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: African Union Member States reporting COVID-19 cases as of 18 October 2020, 9 am EAT"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Africa<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

African Union Member States (55) reporting COVID-19 cases (1,636,748) deaths (39,559), and recoveries (1,347,199) by region:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nCentral (59,242 cases; 1,125 deaths; 52,845 recoveries):<\/strong>  Burundi (536; 1; 472), Cameroon (21,441; 423; 20,117), CAR (4,855; 62; 1,924), Chad (1,365; 93; 1,179), Congo (5,156; 92; 4,400), DRC (11,006; 302; 10,473), Equatorial Guinea (5,070; 83; 4,954), Gabon (8,881; 54; 8,430), Sao Tome & Principe (932; 15; 896)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Eastern (192,713; 3,628; 121,152):<\/strong> Comoros (502; 7; 485), Djibouti (5,452; 61; 5,373), Eritrea (452; 0; 388), Ethiopia (88,434; 1,346; 42,099), Kenya (44,196; 825; 31,752), Madagascar (16,814; 238; 16,215), Mauritius (407; 10; 361), Rwanda (4,971; 34; 4,768), 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 (426,401; 12,319; 315,930):<\/strong> Algeria (54,193; 1,842**; 37,971), Egypt (105,297; 6,109; 98,157), Libya (47,845; 699; 26,062), Mauritania (7,585; 163; 7,301), Morocco (170,911; 2,878; 141,381), Tunisia (40,542; 626; 5,032), Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (28; 2; 26)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Southern (773,826; 19,789; 686,747):<\/strong> Angola (7,462; 241; 3,022), Botswana (3,914; 20; 905), Eswatini (5,765; 115; 5,392), Lesotho (1,833; 42; 961), Malawi (5,852; 181; 4,740), Mozambique (10,707; 74; 8,272), Namibia (12,263; 131; 10,419), South Africa (702,131; 18,408; 630,436), Zambia (15,789; 346; 14,927), Zimbabwe (8,110; 231; 7,673)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Western (184,566; 2,698; 170,525):<\/strong> Benin (2,496, 41; 2,330), Burkina Faso (2,343; 65; 1,758), Cape Verde (7,638; 85; 6,473), Côte d'Ivoire (20,301; 121; 19,983), Gambia (3,649; 118; 2,649), Ghana (47,232; 310; 46,578), Guinea (11,478; 70; 10,425), Guinea-Bissau (2,389; 41; 1,782), Liberia (1,377; 82; 1,268), Mali (3,379; 132; 2,570), Niger (1,209; 69; 1,126), Nigeria (61,307; 1,123; 56,557), Senegal (15,392; 317; 13,756), Sierra Leone (2,327; 73; 1,753), Togo (2,049; 51; 1,517)<\/p>\n

**Africa CDC inadvertently reported 2,126 deaths for Algeria. Correct value now listed.<\/p>\n

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

Media files<\/b>
\"Africa<\/a>
Download logo<\/a><\/div>\n

Source: Africa Newsroom – APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

African Union Member States (55) reporting COVID-19 cases (1,636,748) deaths (39,559), and recoveries (1,347,199) by region: Central (59,242 cases; 1,125 deaths; 52,845 recoveries):  Burundi (536; 1; 472), Cameroon (21,441; 423; 20,117), CAR (4,855; 62; 1,924), Chad (1,365; 93; 1,179), Congo (5,156; 92; 4,400), DRC (11,006; 302; 10,473), Equatorial Guinea (5,070; 83; 4,954), Gabon (8,881; 54; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169169,"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-169168","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-18-october-2020-9-am-eat.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169168","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=169168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}