Table 1.

List of countries with high incidence of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths as of 20th January 2021.

Countries with high incidence of COVID-19 Cases				Countries with high incidence of COVID-19 Deaths
Rank	Countries	No. of Cases	% of Total	Rank	Countries	No. of Deaths	% of Total
1	South Africa	1369,426	40.77	1	South Africa	38,854	47.46
2	Morocco	462,542	13.77	2	Egypt	8747	10.68
3	Tunisia	188,373	5.61	3	Morocco	8043	9.82
4	Egypt	158,963	4.73	4	Tunisia	5921	7.23
5	Ethiopia	132,034	3.93	5	Algeria	2849	3.48
6	Nigeria	114,691	3.41	6	Ethiopia	2044	2.50
7	Libya	111,124	3.31	7	Kenya	1736	2.12
8	Algeria	102,606	3.05	8	Libya	1715	2.09
9	Kenya	99,444	2.96	9	Sudan	1603	1.96
10	Ghana	58,431	1.74	10	Nigeria	1478	1.81
11	Zambia	40,949	1.22	11	Zimbabwe	879	1.07
12	Uganda	38,628	1.15	12	DR Congo	642	0.78
13	Namibia	31,253	0.93	13	Zambia	585	0.71
14	Zimbabwe	29,408	0.88	14	Senegal	546	0.67
15	Mozambique	29,396	0.88	15	Cameroon	455	0.56
16	Cameroon	28,010	0.83	16	Angola	444	0.54
17	Sudan	26,279	0.78	17	Eswatini	407	0.50
18	Ivory Coast	25,597	0.76	18	Mauritania	407	0.50
19	Senegal	23,642	0.70	19	Ghana	358	0.44
20	DR Congo	21,308	0.63	20	Malawi	353	0.43

Source:https://www.statista.com/statistics/1170463/coronavirus-cases-in-africa/.

Note: The number of total confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Africa was 3358,823 as 20th of January 2020, while the number of COVID-19 deaths in Africa was 81,863 as at 20th of January 2020.