Addis Ababa, Aug. 15 (UNI) Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Africa has surged to 1,096,951, while the death toll has risen to 25,096, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Saturday.
The Africa CDC, which is a specialised healthcare agency of the African Union (AU) Commission, said in its latest update on Saturday, that the number of COVID-19 cases across the African continent has risen from 1,084,687 on Friday to 1,096,951 as of Saturday.
The Africa CDC also informed that Africa's COVID-19 related death toll registered an increase of 436 deaths during the past 24 hours to reach 25,096.
Xinhua quoted the agency saying that the number of recoveries reached 812,839 on Saturday as 32,763 people recovered from the ailment during the past 24 hours.
South Africa with 579,140 cases is the worst affected country in the continent, not only does it have the highest number of cases but also the highest number of COVID-19 related deaths as it has registered 11,556 deaths so far.
Egypt comes in next with 96,220 COVID-19 cases and 5,124 COVID-19 related deaths followed by Nigeria which has so far recorded 48,445 COVID-19 cases and 973 deaths.

The western African country of Ghana comes fourth in terms of number of COVID-19 related cases recording 42,063 COVID-19 and 231 deaths.
Rounding up the top five COVID-19 infected African countries list is Morocco which has so far recorded 39,241 COVID-19 cases out of which 611 resulted in the deaths.

These five countries in total account for almost three fourth of all COVID-19 cases in Africa.
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