Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the name given to the new coronavirus of 2019. COVID-19 is the name given to the disease associated with the virus. SARS-CoV-2 is a new strain of coronavirus that has not previously been identified in humans.
Next table shows african countries with reported laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths. Data as of 29 May 2020 – 04:32 PM CET
| Reporting Country/ Territory/Area | Total Confirmed Cases | Total deaths | Recovered |
| South Africa | 27.403 | 577 | 14.370 |
| Algeria | 8.997 | 630 | 5.277 |
| Nigeria | 8.915 | 259 | 2.592 |
| Ghana | 7.616 | 34 | 2.421 |
| Cameroon | 5.436 | 175 | 1.996 |
| Guinea | 3.553 | 22 | 1.950 |
| Senegal | 3.429 | 41 | 1.738 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 2.833 | 69 | 400 |
| Côte d’Ivoire | 2.641 | 32 | 1.326 |
| Gabon | 2.431 | 14 | 668 |
| Kenya | 1.745 | 62 | 438 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1.306 | 12 | 200 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 1.195 | 8 | 42 |
| Zambia | 1.057 | 7 | 779 |
| Ethiopia | 968 | 8 | 197 |
| Niger | 955 | 64 | 796 |
| Burkina Faso | 847 | 53 | 719 |
| Sierra Leone | 829 | 45 | 386 |
| Central African Republic | 755 | 1 | 23 |
| Chad | 726 | 65 | 413 |
| Madagascar | 698 | 5 | 164 |
| Congo | 571 | 19 | 161 |
| United Republic of Tanzania | 509 | 21 | 183 |
| Togo | 422 | 13 | 183 |
| Cabo Verde | 390 | 4 | 155 |
| Rwanda | 349 | 0 | 245 |
| Mauritania | 346 | 19 | 15 |
| Mauritius | 334 | 10 | 322 |
| Uganda | 317 | 0 | 69 |
| Eswatini | 279 | 2 | 168 |
| Liberia | 273 | 27 | 146 |
| Mozambique | 233 | 2 | 82 |
| Benin | 224 | 3 | 136 |
| Malawi | 203 | 4 | 42 |
| Zimbabwe | 149 | 4 | 28 |
| Angola | 74 | 4 | 18 |
| Eritrea | 39 | 0 | 39 |
| Botswana | 35 | 1 | 20 |
| Gambia | 25 | 1 | 19 |
| Namibia | 23 | 0 | 14 |
| Seychelles | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| Total | 89.141 | 2.317 | 38.951 |
Source: Johns Hopkins University
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