{"id":116566,"date":"2021-03-07T17:33:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T09:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116566"},"modified":"2021-03-07T17:33:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T09:33:12","slug":"covid-19-africa-reports-nearly-3-95-mln-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116566","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Africa reports nearly 3.95 mln  cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/4ACA\/production\/_116764191_cape_nurse_gettyimages-1230343789.jpg\" alt=\"Medic writing notes at hospital near Cape Town.\"\/><figcaption>South Africa has had the most cases on the continent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ADDIS ABABA, March 7 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 3,948,029 as of Saturday evening, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the 55-member African Union (AU), said the death toll related to the pandemic stood at 105,275, while some 3,526,325 patients across the continent have recovered from the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most affected countries in terms of the number of confirmed positive cases are South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, and Ethiopia, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Africa has reported 50,566 deaths from the disease, the most among African countries, followed by Egypt, at 10,916, and Morocco, at 8,673, according to the agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health reported 956 new COVID-19 cases over the last 24 hours, taking its national count to 165,029.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, 16 new deaths were recorded, bringing the death toll to 2,420, the ministry added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 354 more recoveries registered, the total recoveries rose to 137,785, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethiopia has so far reported the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the East African region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ethiopian government recently started a campaign to encourage face mask wearing in the public as part of COVID-19 precautionary measures so as to contain the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The East African nation has so far conducted 2,171,913 COVID-19 tests, including 6,406 new ones during the last 24 hours, said the ministry. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADDIS ABABA, March 7 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 3,948,029 as of Saturday evening, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the 55-member African Union (AU), said the death toll related to the pandemic stood at 105,275, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":116567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116566"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}