ADDIS ABABA, March 27 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in the African continent has reached 83 as confirmed positives cases surpassed 3,243 as of Friday, the Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) revealed on Friday.
The Africa CDC, specialized agency of the 55-member African Union (AU), in its latest situation update said the cases were spread across 46 African countries.
The continental disease control and prevention agency also disclosed that the Northern African region is the most affected area across the continent both in terms of positive COVID-19 cases, as well as the number of deaths, in which Northern African countries have so far registered 1,249 positive COVID-19 cases as well as 60 deaths due to the pandemic.
The southern Africa region, which is the second highly affected in the continent, has also so far registered 972 confirmed COVID-19 cases, while the western African region has also registered 605 confirmed COVID-19 cases as well as 11 deaths.
The Africa CDC also disclosed that some 254 people who have been infected with the COVID-19 have recovered across the continent.
Amid the rapid spread of the virus across the African continent, figures from the Africa CDC also show that more than 400 new confirmed COVID-19 cases have been reported across the continent since the center's recent report on Thursday.
