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Section size for COVID-19 pandemic in Africa (96 sections)
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(Top)	18,553	18,553
Overall history	7,663	7,663
Statistics	130	144,688
Total confirmed cases	1,498	1,498
Total confirmed cases by country	143,060	143,060
Confirmed cases by country and territory	77	77
Timeline by country and territory	89	133,224
Algeria	2,441	2,441
Angola	2,449	2,449
Benin	1,079	1,079
Botswana	2,906	2,906
Burkina Faso	2,404	2,404
Burundi	1,474	1,474
Cameroon	1,006	1,006
Cape Verde	1,213	1,213
Central African Republic	848	848
Chad	2,004	2,004
Comoros	2,443	2,443
Democratic Republic of the Congo	1,742	3,016
Prevention measures	1,274	1,274
Republic of the Congo	589	589
Djibouti	137	137
Egypt	4,774	4,774
Equatorial Guinea	637	637
Eritrea	683	683
Eswatini	582	582
Ethiopia	4,325	4,325
Territories of France	91	2,684
Mayotte	1,897	1,897
Réunion	696	696
Gabon	681	681
The Gambia	694	694
Ghana	2,278	2,278
Guinea	702	702
Guinea-Bissau	718	718
Ivory Coast	748	748
Kenya	1,430	1,430
Lesotho	958	958
Liberia	1,411	1,411
Libya	1,629	1,629
Madagascar	1,561	1,561
Malawi	2,470	2,470
Mali	631	631
Mauritania	1,687	1,687
Mauritius	7,141	7,141
Morocco	643	643
Mozambique	791	791
Namibia	6,137	6,137
Niger	737	737
Nigeria	4,176	10,917
Lock-down measures	2,064	2,064
High-profile individuals with COVID-19	4,677	4,677
Territories of Portugal	73	172
Madeira	99	99
Rwanda	1,178	1,178
São Tomé and Príncipe	737	737
Senegal	2,153	2,153
Seychelles	1,435	1,435
Sierra Leone	2,799	2,799
Somalia	910	2,240
Puntland	657	657
Somaliland	673	673
South Africa	241	11,064
First wave (March 2020 – November 2020)	3,820	3,820
Second wave (December 2020 – April 2021)	5,549	5,549
Third wave (May 2021–present)	1,454	1,454
South Sudan	1,107	1,107
Territories of Spain	67	2,573
Canary Islands	1,258	1,258
Ceuta	646	646
Melilla	602	602
Sudan	1,629	1,629
Tanzania	3,247	3,247
Togo	1,122	1,122
Tunisia	1,565	1,565
Uganda	1,813	1,813
Territories of United Kingdom	37	5,839
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	5,802	5,802
Western Sahara	1,418	1,418
Zambia	3,501	3,501
Zimbabwe	4,618	4,618
Prevention in other territories	39	1,267
British Indian Ocean Territory	1,228	1,228
Vaccination	251	251
Background	15	22,514
Impact	5,001	5,001
Healthcare systems	6,896	8,948
Vaccination	2,052	2,052
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Lockdown	3,173	3,173
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Social media	2,439	2,439
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See also	674	674
References	33	33
External links	593	593
Total	329,051	329,051

WikiProject COVID-19[edit]

I've created WikiProject COVID-19 as a temporary or permanent WikiProject and invite editors to use this space for discussing ways to improve coverage of the ongoing 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. Please bring your ideas to the project/talk page. Stay safe, ---Another Believer _(Talk) 16:45, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Map out of date[edit]

The map shows several countries in grey, which within the article are confirmed to have cases. WisDom-UK (talk) 15:20, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

to confirm, Somalia, Gambia and Zambia need to be made red (would do this myself but I'm unsure how).WisDom-UK (talk) 20:34, 18 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Madagascar should be added to the map.[edit]

There have been confirmed cases in Madagascar later. ^[1] There has been confirmed cases in Zimbabwe as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.31.201.88 (talk) 16:25, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

First case[edit]

Wasn’t the first case in the Canary Islands? Shouldn’t Madeira be added on the list? Ten Islands (talk) 12:53, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Index case[edit]

Egypt, or the Canary Islands? 1.64.49.65 (talk) 09:45, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Legends under the map[edit]

The legends under the map are totally wrong, there is no country in Africa with more than 10000 confirmed cases. --Giammarco Ferrari (talk) 09:06, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Soon there will be. And it is quite possible that during the summer 2020 the limit of 100,000 cases could also be reached in some countries. One of the major challenges is in testing. If there were enough good quality test sets and reagents (and not just quick tests), many more test locations and more capable personnel (how, when and where samples are taken vs. development of COVID-19; and analysed), it is very likely that we would already have such countries in Africa. Unfortunately, even when Africa CDC, WHO and others have worked hard since February to increase testing capabilities in Africa, the small number of tests (per million) practically every country in Africa limits our real picture of COVID-19 in Africa. see e.g. COVID-19 testing statistics by country (sort per Tested per million people). And the poor situation has not been/is not just in April-May, but could also stay during the summer months of 2020 even if the very optimistic plan of +10 million test sets produced in next four months is successful. See e.g. view of Dr. John Nkengasong in Nature (2020-4-28), where the writer expresses his views diplomatically, due to his position as the boss of Africa CDC. --Paju~enwiki (talk) 15:05, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Update Map for Nigeria and Djibouti?[edit]

Both Nigeria and Djibouti have past 1,000 cases. Shouldn't their colors be changed on the maps? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:82E0:A690:35F3:D108:5338:BC19 (talk) 21:45, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sources for Total confirmed cases.[edit]

Hey! What sources do you use on that Total confirmed cases graph? This graph say that on 28 April there was ~45,000 thousands cases, but Coronavirus in Africa tracker say that on 5 May there is 46,968 cases, worldometers say that there is 48,081 cases and the latest report from WHO (4 May) say that there is "only" 30 536 cases. So how it is possible that on 28 April we have ~45,000? when few days later (5 May) is ~46.000? Natanieluz (talk) 09:06, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Inaccurate graphs[edit]

I've removed the active cases graph, as this is inaccurate and unmaintained. I asked the person who created it to fix a few things at User_talk:Yash400#Active_cases_in_Africa but it hasn't been corrected yet. There are figures missing, and the totals don't match the source. I've also asked an anonymous IP adding data to the total confirmed graph to source this, as there is also missing data, so everything is out, and can't be recreated without confirming a source. Greenman (talk) 22:47, 21 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox and the First outbreak[edit]

I think that the section First outbreak should have info about the first outbreak in Africa, and not China. This infobox is headlined "COVID-19 pandemic in Africa", not the world.--Ezzex (talk) 22:04, 22 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:COVID-19 lab leak theory#Request_for_comment[edit]

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[1] ttps://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

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