Over 36,000 cases coronavirus recorded daily for the last seven days in Africa, a record number on this continent since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a count made until yesterday, Sunday, by the French Agency, based on official reports.
With an average of 36,141 cases recorded each day of the week from June 28 to July 4, The current outbreak in Africa exceeded the 32,609 infections daily recorded between 5 and 11 January., at the previous peak of the pandemic.
After dropping below 8,000 cases a day in mid-May, the number of new infections has not stopped rising on the African continent for six weeks. It increased by 23% between June 28 and July 4, compared to the previous week.
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Among the countries that have recorded more than 1,000 infections per day, the largest increases have been observed in Zimbabwe (1,150 cases per day, + 72% in one week), Tunisia (5,230 cases per day, + 52%) and South Africa. , where more than half of the new cases recorded on the continent are concentrated (19,140 cases per day, + 27%).
Seychelles country with the highest epidemiological impact (number of cases in 7 days per 100,000 inhabitants) in the world (incidence 754) have recorded the last 7 days reduction of the epidemic (-25%), unlike Namibia (433, + 10%) and Tunisia (310, + 52%).
Africa also saw a sharp rise in the number of deaths due to Covid-19: 748 deaths per day on average over the last 7 days, an increase of 43% in one week. But the number is lower than the week with the highest number of deaths on the continent – it was the week from January 18 to 24, when Africa averaged 906 deaths a day.
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