The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has recorded 510 new cases and 4 new deaths of COVID-19 in past 24 hours, official figures show on Wednesday.
The new cases were recorded in Burkina Faso (14), Cape Verde (83), Ivory Coast (1), Gambia (4), Ghana (92), Guinea (112), Guinea-Bissau (4), Liberia (8), Mali (10), Niger (1), Nigeria (154), Senegal (15), Sierra Leone (3) and Togo (9). The new deaths were registered in Gambia (2), Ghana (1) and Guinea-Bissau (1).
Nigeria has the highest number of total cases (60,420), total deaths (1,115) and total recoveries (51,943) in the sub-region. West Africa now has 182,125 total cases, 2,669 total deaths and 164,181 total recoveries.
Ghana (47,097 total cases) has 308 total deaths and 46,452 total recoveries. Ivory Coast (20,155 total cases) has 120 total deaths and 19,831 total recoveries. Senegal and Guinea have recorded 15,307 and 11,134 total cases respectively. Senegal has 315 total deaths and 13,508 total recoveries while Guinea has 68 total deaths and 10,347 total recoveries. Cabo Verde (7,155 total cases) has 75 total deaths and 6,075 total recoveries. Gambia (3,636 total cases) has 118 total deaths and 2,593 total recoveries.
Mali (3,296 total cases) has 132 total deaths and 2,533 total recoveries. Guinea-Bissau (2,389 total cases) has 41 total deaths and 1,782 total recoveries. Benin (2,357 total cases) has 41 total deaths and 1,973 total recoveries.
Sierra Leone (2,309 total cases) has 72 total deaths and 1,738 total recoveries and Burkina Faso (2,294 total cases) has 61 total deaths and 1,571 total recoveries. Liberia (1,371 total cases) has 82 total deaths and 1,250 total recoveries. Togo (1,949 total cases) has 49 total deaths and 1,461 total recoveries. Niger (1,202 total cases) has 69 total deaths and 1,124 total recoveries.
Africa has registered 1,594,915 total cases, 38,384 total deaths and 1,318,377 total recoveries while the world has recorded 38,156,930 total cases, 1,087,035 total deaths and 28,678,290 total recoveries.
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