{"id":211828,"date":"2021-08-20T11:53:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T10:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=211828"},"modified":"2020-04-20T14:20:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T13:20:14","slug":"covid-19-africas-death-toll-hits-1080-as-south-africa-egypt-morocco-top-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=211828","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Africa\u2019s death toll hits 1080 as South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, 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 21,317 confirmed cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in 52 countries across Africa.<br \/>\nAfrica CDC stated this in a tweet on its official Twitter handle on Sunday evening.<br \/>\nAccording to the tweet, COVID-19 has killed 1080 people in Africa, while a total of 5,203 patients have recovered from the deadly disease across the continent.<br \/>\nSouth Africa is now the highest country in Africa with 3034 cases and 52 deaths, followed by Egypt with 3,032 cases and 224 deaths, Morocco with 2,820 cases and 138 deaths, while Algeria follows with 2,534 cases and 367 deaths.<br \/>\n\u201c#COVID2019 update (6 pm EAT 19 April 2020).<br \/>\n\u201c52 @_AfricanUnion Member States reporting 21317 cases, 1080 deaths, and 5203 recoveries,\u201d the health agency tweeted.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Sunday night confirmed 86 new COVID-19 cases in the country.\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has said that there are now 21,317 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 1080 people in Africa, while a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211829,"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":[14571,3],"tags":[2658,14173],"class_list":["post-211828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-a","tag-coronavirus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211828","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=211828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/211829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}