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COVID-19 has killed more people in Africa than Ebola – WHO
Published
on
July 9, 2020
By
Ifreke Inyang
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said COVID-19 has killed more people in Africa than Ebola.
The number of people who died of coronavirus in Africa in less than five months, have surpassed the 11,308 deaths caused by Ebola between 2014 and 2016.
WHO’s Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, on Wednesday confirmed that COVID-19 cases in Africa had surpassed 500,000, even as a total of 11,959 persons died of the virus within five months.