[NEWS UPDATE] Uh oh!! See The Increasing Number Of Coronavirus Cases In Africa – WHO

Coronavirus cases in Africa is on the expansion as indicated by measurements discharged by the World Health Organisationl.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says Covid-19 cases have ascended to more than 51,000 in Africa as at Thursday, May 7.

The WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, gave the report on its official twitter account @WHOAFRO.

“There are over 51,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent – with more than 17,000 associated recoveries and 1,900 deaths,” it said.

The figures indicated that South Africa, Algeria and Nigeria had the most noteworthy detailed cases in the WHO Africa Region.

As per the report, South Africa had 7,808 cases and 153 passings followed by Algeria with 4,997 cases and 476 passings, while Nigeria had 3,145 affirmed cases with 103 passings.

Additionally, Ghana and Cameroon were number four and five separately with 2,719 detailed cases and 18 passings while Cameroon has 2,265 with 108 passings.

As indicated by the report, Mauritania, Comoros, Seychelles are nations with the most reduced affirmed cases in the district.

It demonstrated that Mauritania had eight affirmed cases with one passing; Comoros additionally had eight announced cases and one demise, while Seychelles recorded 11 affirmed cases with zero passing.

In the interim, in an announcement posted on its site, WHO said as the contamination spread in Africa's most crowded country, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) was increase trying limit.

The UN wellbeing office said when Nigeria announced its first instance of the infection on 27 February 2020, it had just five research centers in four states ready to test for COVID-19.

“There are now 17 laboratories and plans are afoot to set up one each in all the 36 states. Widespread testing sits at the heart of Nigeria’s COVID-19 battle,” it expressed.

As indicated by the announcement, NCDC focuses to test around 2,000,000 individuals in the following three months.

The announcement cited NCDC Director-General, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, as saying: "To accomplish this aggressive objective, we need to perform 50, 000 tests for every state.

“This would require enormous investment and we are working with our partners to achieve this.”

Nigeria, with the assistance of WHO and Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and different accomplices, set up the National Reference Laboratory, in the capital, Abuja, and had the option to test for COVID-19 toward the beginning of February.

“It took a mammoth effort from NCDC, WHO and partners to buy and ship kits to Nigeria,” said Dhamari Naidoo, the focal point on laboratories at WHO Nigeria.

WHO has offered specialized help, reagents and consumables just as supporting example transportation at the state level, and all the more as of late in a joint effort with NCDC, utilizing virtual preparing to scale up capacities with regards to test assortment.

The association likewise bolstered the improvement of the national testing system and is working intimately with all accomplices to execute all prongs of the procedure. (NAN)