JOHANNESBURG – Africa’s coronavirus cases have surged to more than 336,000, an increase of nearly 10,000 infections from Wednesday evening.
That’s according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The jump is largely due to South Africa announcing its largest daily number of new cases: 5,688.
The Africa CDC chief says the pandemic on the 54-nation continent “is picking up speed very quickly” while shortages of testing materials and medical equipment remain severe in many countries.
More than 4 million tests for the virus have been conducted on the continent of 1.3 billion people, far short of the ideal.
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, has more than 22,000 cases amid concerns that many infections there and elsewhere might not be recorded. (AP)
