Corona-virus latest updates: Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya....cases, death increases!

Africa Covid-19 update: 02:00 WAT Tuesday 5 May (03:00 CEST)

According to the latest figures published by Johns Hopkins University, 3,578,301 cases have been detected worldwide, with 251,365 deaths and 1,162,563 people now recovered.

Nigeria: 2,558 cases / 87 deaths
South Africa: 7,220 cases / 138 deaths
Ghana: 2,719 cases / 18 deaths
Kenya: 490 cases / 24 deaths

Global coronavirus deaths exceed quarter of a million

(Reuters) - Global coronavirus deaths reached 250,000 on Monday after recorded infections topped 3.5 million, a Reuters tally of official government data showed, although the rate of fatalities has slowed.

North America and European countries accounted for most of the new deaths and cases reported in recent days, but numbers were rising from smaller bases in Latin America, Africa and Russia.

Globally, there were 3,062 new deaths and 61,923 new cases over the past 24 hours, taking total cases to 3.58 million.

That easily exceeds the estimated 140,000 deaths worldwide in 2018 caused by measles, and compares with around 3 million to 5 million cases of severe illness caused annually by seasonal influenza, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

While the current trajectory of COVID-19 falls far short of the 1918 Spanish flu, which infected an estimated 500 million people, killing at least 10% of patients, experts worry the available data is underplaying the true impact of the pandemic.

The concerns come as several countries begin to ease strict lockdowns that have been credited with helping contain the spread of the virus.

"We could easily have a second or a third wave because a lot of places aren't immune," Peter Collignon, an infectious diseases physician and microbiologist at Canberra Hospital, told Reuters. He noted the world was well short of herd immunity, which requires around 60% of the population to have recovered from the disease.

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#COVID19Update 4 May, 245 new cases of #COVID19 have been reported;

76-Lagos
37-Katsina
32-Jigawa
23-Kano
19-FCT
18-Borno
10-Edo
9-Bauchi
6-Adamawa
5-Oyo
5-Ogun
1-Ekiti
1-Osun
1-Benue
1-Niger
1-Zamfara

Total Confirmed cases: 2802
Discharged: 417
Deaths: 93

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