Sao Tome and Pr9incipe Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/sao-tome-and-pr9incipe/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 02 Apr 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Sao Tome and Pr9incipe Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/sao-tome-and-pr9incipe/ 32 32 Five African countries have not recorded COVID19 infections https://jjcornish.com/2020/04/five-african-countries-have-not-recorded-covid19-infections/ Thu, 02 Apr 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/04/five-african-countries-have-not-recorded-covid19-infections/ With Malawi confirming its first COVID19 cases, there are five African countries that remain coronavirus free. They are all small, relatively remote and have tests rates either extremely low or not all. South Africa continues to top the continental table of COVID 19 infections. Its1462 cases recorded this morning are far and away ahead of […]

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]]> With Malawi confirming its first COVID19 cases, there are five African countries that remain coronavirus free.

They are all small, relatively remote and have tests rates either extremely low or not all.

South Africa continues to top the continental table of COVID 19 infections.

Its1462 cases recorded this morning are far and away ahead of second place Algeria which has 986 cases.

Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia follow that.

The African countries that have not recorded COVID19 cases are Comoros, Lesotho, Sao Tome and Principe, South Sudan  and Western Sahara.

All of these fall into the World Health Organisation’s remote category mentioned when it confirmed that the global infections exceed one million.

The total number of African deaths from COVID 19 is currently 290.

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