The number of COVID-19 cases in the WHO African Region has increased to over 28,000.

The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, gave the update on its official twitter account @WHOAFRO on Saturday.

Over 28,000 #COVID19 cases reported on the African continent – with over 8,000 associated recoveries & 1,300 deaths recorded. View country figures & more with the WHO African Region COVID-19 Dashboard: https://t.co/V0fkK8dYTg pic.twitter.com/V6rAi9McrC

— WHO African Region (@WHOAFRO) April 25, 2020

The WHO African Region COVID-19 dashboard showed that in sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa suffered the most severe outbreak, while Cameroun and Ghana had more than 2,500 confirmed cases.

The figures on the dashboard showed that South Africa, Algeria and Cameroun had continued to top the list of countries with the highest reported cases.

It showed that South Africa had 4, 220 cases and 79 deaths followed by Algeria with 3, 127 cases and 415 deaths, while Cameroon had 1,403 confirmed cases with 49 deaths.

According to the dashboard, South Sudan, Sao Tome and Principe, Mauritania have the lowest confirmed cases in the region:

It showed that South Sudan had the lowest confirmed cases of five reported with zero death.

Mauritania, the dashboard showed, was second country with the lowest confirmed cases: seven reported cases and one death.

Sao Tome and Principe, the third country with the lowest cases, had recorded eight confirmed cases with zero death.

Also, the dashboard showed that Nigeria was number five among the countries with the highest cases with 1,095 confirmed cases and 32 deaths.

By Amaka E. Nliam