Africa: COVID-19 outbreak update

According to The Africa CDC’s Weekly Event-Based Surveillance Report, a total of 12,370,959 COVID-19 cases and 275,612 deaths (CFR:2.1%) have been reported by the 55 AU MS. This represents 2% of alla cases and 4% of all deaths reported globally. 53 MS have reported COVID-19 cases infected with the Alpha (50 MS), Beta (46), Delta (53), Gamma (5) and Omicrom (53) variants of concern (VOC). 54 AU MS are currently providing covid-19 vaccination to the general population. Cumulatively, 1.1 billion doses have been administered on the continent. Of these does administered, 570.7 million people have been partially vaccinated, and 446.9 million have been fully vaccinated. Eritrea is the only AU MS yet to start COVID-19 vaccination roll out.