The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has recorded 277 new cases and 2 new deaths of COVID-19 in past 24 hours, official figures show on Tuesday.
The new cases were recorded in Burkina Faso (6), Cape Verde (48), Ivory Coast (1), Guinea (20), Guinea-Bissau (14), Liberia (4), Mali (19), Niger (1), Nigeria (118), Senegal (27), Sierra Leone (5) and Togo (14). The new deaths were registered in Cape Verde (1) and Senegal (1).
Nigeria has the highest number of total cases (61,558), total deaths (1,125) and total recoveries (56,697) in the sub-region. West Africa now has 185,392 total cases, 2,705 total deaths and 171,271 total recoveries.
Ghana (47,372 total cases) has 310 total deaths and 46,664 total recoveries. Ivory Coast (20,324 total cases) has 121 total deaths and 20,029 total recoveries. Senegal and Guinea have recorded 15,459 and 11,538 total cases respectively.
Senegal has 320 total deaths and 13,922 total recoveries while Guinea has 69 total deaths and 10,447 total recoveries. Cabo Verde (7,800 total cases) has 87 total deaths and 6,620 total recoveries. Gambia (3,649 total cases) has 118 total deaths and 2,649 total recoveries.
Mali (3,407 total cases) has 132 total deaths and 2,588 total recoveries. Guinea-Bissau (2,403 total cases) has 41 total deaths and 1,818 total recoveries. Benin (2,496 total cases) has 41 total deaths and 2,330 total recoveries.
Sierra Leone (2,336 total cases) has 72 total deaths and 1,765 total recoveries and Burkina Faso (2,387 total cases) has 65 total deaths and 1,802 total recoveries. Liberia (1,381 total cases) has 82 total deaths and 1,271 total recoveries. Togo (2,071 total cases) has 51 total deaths and 1,541 total recoveries. Niger (1,210 total cases) has 69 total deaths and 1,126 total recoveries.
Africa has registered 1,671,117 total cases, 40,079 total deaths and 1,371,534 total recoveries while the world has recorded 40,890,622 total cases, 1,126,577 total deaths and 30,494,406 total recoveries.
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