{"id":209569,"date":"2020-04-13T11:53:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T10:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=209569"},"modified":"2020-04-13T11:54:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T10:54:03","slug":"covid-19-africas-death-toll-hits-747-as-south-africa-egypt-top-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=209569","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Africa&#8217;s death toll hits 747, as South Africa, Egypt top list"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has said that there are now 13,814 confirmed cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in 52 countries across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Africa CDC stated this in a tweet on its official Twitter handle on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>According to the tweet, COVID-19 has killed 747 people in Africa, while a total of 2,355 patients have recovered from the deadly disease across the continent.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa remains the highest country in Africa with 2,028 cases and 25 deaths, followed by Egypt with 1,939 and 146 deaths, and Algeria with 1,825 cases and 275 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c#COVID2019 update (6 pm EAT, 12 April 2020):<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[email protected]_AfricanUnion Member States reporting 13,814 cases, 747 deaths, and 2,355 recoveries,\u201d the health agency tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Nigeria recorded 323 confirmed cases of Coronavirus on Sunday night; 85 patients had been discharged with ten deaths as at Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-781040 lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20680%20383'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2020\/04\/COVID-19-Africas-death-toll-hits-747-as-South-Africa-Egypt-top-list.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" data-=\"data-\"><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has said that there are now 13,814 confirmed cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in 52 countries across Africa. Africa CDC stated this in a tweet on its official Twitter handle on Sunday evening. According to the tweet, COVID-19 has killed 747 people in Africa, while a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,14173],"class_list":["post-209569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-coronavirus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}