Coronavirus in Africa Tracker: How many Covid-19 cases & where? [UPDATED]

Yukari Umemoto

2 min readMay 7, 2020

Confirmed cases in Africa: 42,772

The death rate is 4%, which is lower than the global average rate
A number of countries which has tested more than 1,000 per 1 million population are 9
In most of African countries, DT (doubling Time) is less than 7 days, except Sudan, Guinea-Bissau, Chad, Central Africa and South Sudan

Last update: May 3

Basic data by Country

Trend of daily confirmed cases

Cumulative confirmed cases in Africa, by country since 100 cases

Source:
Number of cases, recovered cases, deaths: Johns Hopkins University
Number of tests: Our World Data
Population: World bank
DT: Doubling Time. Calculating a number of days which infected cases have become double based on the actual data of 7 days.
Mobility changes: Retail & recreation changing rate by Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Report (as of April 11)