Covid-19: Recent Spikes sends Ghana to Fourth Worst-hit Country in Africa

South Africa has confirmed the most cases

Jun 19, 2020 - 14:12

Covid-19: Recent Spikes sends Ghana to Fourth Worst-hit Country in Africa

Ghana’s confirmed Covid-19 cases is the fourth highest in Africa currently.

Despite earlier predictions by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) that the disease may have reached its infection rate peak, the covid-19 case count in the country continues to steadily rise.

According to Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), African Union member states have reported 275,327 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of June 19, 2020.

Per the figures, there have been 7,395 deaths and 125,316 recoveries in the region.

Most cases in Africa

South Africa has recorded the most cases on the continent with 83,890 cases, followed by Egypt and Nigeria with 50,437 and 18,480 cases respectively.

Ghana has the fourth-highest number of COVID-19 cases on the African continent with 12,929 cases.

Coronavirus case count in Africa;

South Africa - 83,890

Egypt - 50,437

Nigeria - 18,480

Ghana - 12,929

Algeria - 11,385

Cameroon - 10,140

Morocco - 9,074

Sudan - 8,020

Ghana's low case-fatality ratio

However, among the countries with the highest cases, Ghana which has recorded 66 deaths from the Coronavirus has the lowest case-fatality ratio - 0.51%.

The remaining countries have ratios above two per cent with Algeria having the highest - 7.12% (475 deaths from 18,480 confirmed cases).