The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has recorded 429 new cases and 7 new deaths of COVID-19 in past 24 hours, official figures show on Saturday.
The new cases were recorded in Burkina Faso (8), Cape Verde (82), Ivory Coast (18), Gambia (5), Guinea (35), Mali (10), Niger (2), Nigeria (212), Senegal (24), Sierra Leone (2) and Togo (31). The new deaths were registered in Cape Verde (3), Ivory Coast (1) and Nigeria (3).
Nigeria has the highest number of total cases (61,194), total deaths (1,119) and total recoveries (52,304) in the sub-region. West Africa now has 184,117 total cases, 2,691 total deaths and 166,074 total recoveries.
Ghana (47,173 total cases) has 310 total deaths and 46,527 total recoveries. Ivory Coast (20,275 total cases) has 121 total deaths and 19,953 total recoveries. Senegal and Guinea have recorded 15,392 and 11,362 total cases respectively.
Senegal has 317 total deaths and 13,756 total recoveries while Guinea has 69 total deaths and 10,420 total recoveries. Cabo Verde (7,526 total cases) has 82 total deaths and 6,425 total recoveries. Gambia (3,649 total cases) has 118 total deaths and 2,649 total recoveries.
Mali (3,378 total cases) has 132 total deaths and 2,563 total recoveries. Guinea-Bissau (2,389 total cases) has 41 total deaths and 1,782 total recoveries. Benin (2,496 total cases) has 41 total deaths and 2,330 total recoveries.
Sierra Leone (2,327 total cases) has 72 total deaths and 1,753 total recoveries and Burkina Faso (2,343 total cases) has 65 total deaths and 1,718 total recoveries. Liberia (1,377 total cases) has 82 total deaths and 1,268 total recoveries. Togo (2,027 total cases) has 51 total deaths and 1,500 total recoveries. Niger (1,209 total cases) has 69 total deaths and 1,126 total recoveries.
Africa has registered 1,633,592 total cases, 39,372 total deaths and 1,343,761 total recoveries while the world has recorded 39,800,728 total cases, 1,112,132 total deaths and 29,789,392 total recoveries.
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