Table 2.

Trend and distribution of confirmed cases, discharged cases, and fatality rate across Africa

S/No	Country	Confirmed cases	Total deaths	Recovered cases	Total test done	Population	Testing rate	Fatality rate	Recovery rate
	Africa	1,359,569	32,678	1,104,047				2.40%	81.21%
1	South Africa	649,793	15,447	577,906	3,918,478	59,461,240	6.59%	2.38%	88.94%
2	Egypt	101,009	5648	84,161	135,000	102,722,504	0.13%	5.59%	83.32%
3	Morocco	86,686	1,578	67,528	2,230,069	36,999,965	6.03%	1.82%	77.90%
4	Ethiopia	64,301	1013	24,983	1,138,012	115,528,092	0.99%	1.58%	38.85%
5	Nigeria	56,256	1082	44,152	440,248	207,152,368	0.21%	1.92%	78.48%
6	Algeria	48,254	1,612	34,037		44,010,565		3.34%	70.54%
7	Ghana	45,434	286	44,342	450,872	31,202,737	1.44%	0.63%	97.60%
8	Kenya	36,157	622	23,067	481,982	54,007,662	0.89%	1.72%	63.80%
9	Libya	22,781	362	12,183	157,481	6,890,311	2.29%	1.59%	53.48%
10	Cameroon	20,167	415	18,837	149,000	26,676,814	0.56%	2.06%	93.41%
11	Ivory Coast	19,013	120	18,112	142,248	26,507,763	0.54%	0.63%	95.26%
12	Madagascar	15,757	211	14,368	64,174	27,831,811	0.23%	1.34%	91.18%
13	Senegal	14,280	297	10,520	158,751	16,831,055	0.94%	2.08%	73.67%
14	Zambia	13,539	312	12,260	131,034	18,485,203	0.71%	2.30%	90.55%
15	Sudan	13,516	835	6757		44,052,920		6.18%	49.99%
16	DRC	10,390	264	9756		90,093,630		2.54%	93.90%
17	Guinea	10,045	63	9292	28,140	13,203,001	0.21%	0.63%	92.50%
18	Namibia	9719	101	6543	80,352	2,550,174	3.15%	1.04%	67.32%
19	Gabon	8643	53	7706	135,615	2,236,175	6.06%	0.61%	89.16%
20	Zimbabwe	7526	224	5678	154,733	14,906,868	1.04%	2.98%	75.45%

This shows the countries with highest prevalence of COVID-19 in Africa, the data for all African countries is available as Suppl. file S2. The fatality due to COVID-19 in Africa is 2.4% with 81.21% recovery rate. South Africa has the highest COVID-19 testing rate (about 7%) in Africa