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The African continent fighting the pandemic
The African continent first came in contact with the coronavirus pandemic on February 14, 2020, in the northernmost part, particularly Egypt. Since then, the different governments took severe restrictive measures to try to curb the spread of the disease. Moreover, the official numbers of the African continent are significantly lower than those of Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. Nevertheless, the infectious disease still managed to have its effects on several countries. South Africa had the highest number of deaths. Morocco and Tunisia, the second and third most affected in Africa, recorded 16,002 and 27,824 deaths, respectively, while Egypt registered at 24,132 as of March 02, 2022.
The light at the end of the tunnel
Although the African countries still have a long way to fully combat the virus, vaccination programs have been rolled out in the majority of Africa. Also, according to a survey, public opinion in several African countries shows a high willingness to be vaccinated, with Ethiopia having numbers as high as 94 percent. As of March 2022, Egypt was the country administering the highest number of vaccine doses, however, Seychelles had the highest per rate per 100 people .
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TwitterOn March 6, 2021, confirmed cases of coronavirus COVID-19 on a single day in South Africa amounted to 8,078. Total cases reached 3,684,319, which is the highest number of confirmed cases compared to other African countries. As of the same date, there were 99,543 casualties and 3,560,217 recoveries in the country.
The most affected country in the continent
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the continent, starting in Egypt on February 14, 2020, South Africa has been harshly affected, quickly becoming the worst-hit country in Africa. Gauteng, the province with Johannesburg as its capital, was the most affected regionally with over 1.2 million cases as of early March, 2022. As well as its health effects, the pandemic had a strong impact on businesses with nine out of ten businesses operating in different industries claiming that the turnover was below the normal range they used to receive as of April 2020.
Vaccination efforts
Countries around the world are racing to get their populations vaccinated to be able to go back to normal. As the fourth wave hits South Africa in December 2021, and as the different stronger variants emerge, the country is also trying to vaccinate its population faster to minimize the severe health effects. After facing a harsh start to its vaccination program due to the ineffectiveness of the AstraZeneca vaccine to the Beta variant also known as B.1.351, on May 17, 2021, South Africa began the second phase of its vaccination program, opening it for people who are 60 and over. Previously, the so-called Sisonke Program was rolled out as the first phase to ensure the vaccination of the health workers protecting them from the pandemic. As of March 6, 2022, Gauteng was the region with the highest number of vaccinated individuals followed by Western Cape with around 9.02 million and five million inoculations, respectively.
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This dataset provides a detailed look into the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa. It contains data on the number of confirmed cases, deaths, recoveries, and testing rates at both a provincial and national level. With this data set, users are able to gain insight into the current state and trends of the pandemic in South Africa. This provides essential information necessary to help fight the epidemic and make informed decisions surrounding its prevention. Using this set as a resource will allow users to monitor how this devastating virus has impacted communities, plans for containment and treatment strategies all while taking into account cultural, socioeconomic factors that can influence these metrics. This dataset is an invaluable tool for understanding not only South Africa’s specific current challenge with COVID-19 but is relevant on a global scale whenit comes to fighting back against this virus that continues to wreak havoc aroundthe worldl
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This Kaggle dataset provides an overview of the South African COVID-19 pandemic situation. It contains data regarding the number of confirmed cases, deaths, recoveries, and testing rates for each province at both the provincial and national level. In order to understand this dataset effectively, it is important to know what each column represents in this dataset. The following is a description of all column names that are included:
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- EC: Number of confirmed cases in Eastern Cape province
- FS: Number of confirmed cases in Free State province
- GP: Number of confirmed cases in Gauteng province
- KZN: Number of confirmed cases in KwaZulu Natal province
- LP: Number of confirmed cases in Limpopo province
- MP: Number of confirmed cases in Mpumalanga Province
NC: Number total number orconfirmed casews in Northern Cape Province
NW :Number total numberurceof confirmes ed cacasesin North WestProvince
WC :Number totaconsfirme dcasescinWestern CapProvincee
UNKNOWN :Number totalnumberorconfirmesdacsesinsUnknown locations
Total :Totalnumberofconfrmecase sacrosseSouthAfrica
Source :Sourecodataset fedzile_Dbi ejweleputswaMangaungXharie thabo_MofutsanyanaRecoveriesDeathsYYMMDD
- Creating an interactive map to show the spread of COVID-19 over time, with up date information about confirmed cases, deaths, recoveries and testing rates for each province or district.
- Constructing a machine learning model to predict the likely number of future cases in each province based on previous data activities.
- Comparing different districts and provinces within South Africa and drawing out trends among them with comparative graphical representations or independent analyses
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File: covid19za_provincial_cumulative_timeline_recoveries.csv | Column name | Description | |:--------------|:---------------------------------------------------------------| | date | Date of the data entry. (Date) | | YYYYMMDD | Date in YYYYMMDD format. (String) | | EC | Number of confirmed cases in Eastern Cape Province. (Integer) | | FS | Number of confirmed cases in Free State Province. (Integer) | | GP | Number of confirmed cases in Gauteng Province. (Integer) | | KZN | Number of confirmed cases in Kwazulu Natal Province. (Integer) | | LP | Number of confirmed cases in Limpopo Province. (Integer) | | MP | Number of confirmed cases in Mpumalanga Province. (Integer) | | NC | Number of confirmed cases in Northern Cape Province. (Integer) | | ...
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South Africa recorded 4072533 Coronavirus Cases since the epidemic began, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, South Africa reported 102595 Coronavirus Deaths. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for South Africa Coronavirus Cases.
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TwitterAs of March 06, 2022, overall coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in South Africa reached its highest at 3,684,319 infections. It was also the largest volume of confirmed cases compared to other African countries. Regionally, Gauteng (Johannesburg) was hit hardest and registered 1,196,591 cases, whereas KwaZulu-Natal (Durban) and Western Cape (Cape Town) counted 653,945 and 642,153 coronavirus cases, respectively. In total 23,245,373 tests were conducted in the country. Total recoveries amounted to 3,560,217. On December 12, 2021, the highest daily increase in cases was recorded in South Africa.
Economic impact on businesses in South Africa
The coronavirus pandemic is not only causing a health crisis but influences the economy heavily as well. According to a survey on the financial impact of COVID-19 on various industries in South Africa, 89.6 percent of businesses indicated to see a turnover below the normal range. Mining and quarrying industry was hit hardest with nearly 95 percent of all companies seeing a decrease in turnover, whereas the largest share of businesses experiencing no economic impact are working within the real estate sector and other business services. As a response to the coronavirus, laying off workers in the short term was the most common workforce measure that businesses in South Africa implemented. 36.4 percent of businesses indicated to have laid of staff temporarily, and roughly 25 percent decreased the working hours. Approximately 20 percent of the surveyed companies, on the other hand, said no measures have been taken.
Business survivability without any revenue
Due to the measures taken by the government to prevent the coronavirus from spreading too fast, many businesses had to close its doors temporarily. However, if the coronavirus would leave them without any form of revenue for up to three months, eight out of ten businesses in South Africa predicted (in April 2020) they will go bankrupt. Just 6.7 percent said to survive for longer than three months without any turnover.
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New Covid cases per month in South Africa, March, 2023 The most recent value is 10955 new Covid cases as of March 2023, an increase compared to the previous value of 5922 new Covid cases. Historically, the average for South Africa from February 2020 to March 2023 is 107172 new Covid cases. The minimum of 0 new Covid cases was recorded in February 2020, while the maximum of 482853 new Covid cases was reached in December 2021. | TheGlobalEconomy.com
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In past 24 hours, South Africa, Africa had N/A new cases, N/A deaths and N/A recoveries.
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COVID 19 Data for South Africa created, maintained and hosted by DSFSI research group at the University of Pretoria
Disclaimer: We have worked to keep the data as accurate as possible. We collate the COVID 19 reporting data from NICD and South Africa DoH. We only update that data once there is an official report or statement. For the other data, we work to keep the data as accurate as possible. If you find errors let us know.
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South Africa COVID-2019: Number of Cases: To Date: CC: Unallocated data was reported at 1.000 Person in 01 Feb 2023. This stayed constant from the previous number of 1.000 Person for 25 Jan 2023. South Africa COVID-2019: Number of Cases: To Date: CC: Unallocated data is updated daily, averaging 0.000 Person from Mar 2020 (Median) to 01 Feb 2023, with 876 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 403.000 Person in 31 Mar 2022 and a record low of 0.000 Person in 14 Dec 2022. South Africa COVID-2019: Number of Cases: To Date: CC: Unallocated data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Department of Health. The data is categorized under High Frequency Database’s Disease Outbreaks – Table ZA.D001: South African Department of Health: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-2019).
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South Africa COVID-2019: Number of Cases: To Date: CC: Eastern Cape data was reported at 366,907.000 Person in 01 Feb 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 366,769.000 Person for 25 Jan 2023. South Africa COVID-2019: Number of Cases: To Date: CC: Eastern Cape data is updated daily, averaging 198,717.000 Person from Mar 2020 (Median) to 01 Feb 2023, with 876 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 366,907.000 Person in 01 Feb 2023 and a record low of 0.000 Person in 20 Mar 2020. South Africa COVID-2019: Number of Cases: To Date: CC: Eastern Cape data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Department of Health. The data is categorized under High Frequency Database’s Disease Outbreaks – Table ZA.D001: South African Department of Health: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-2019).
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TwitterAs of November 16, 2020, a total of 17.577 COVID-19 related casualties were registered in South Africa. Some 14.1 percent of the deaths fell within the age group of 60 to 64 years with, whereas 12.6 percent of whom were aged 55 to 59 passed away due to the diseases caused by the coronavirus. Confirmed coronavirus cases per region in South Africa illustrated Gauteng was hit hardest. As of January 15, 2021, the region with Johannesburg as its capital registered 350,976 individuals with COVID-19 , whereas KwaZulu-Natal and Western Cape had dealt with less cases.
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TwitterIn view of the recent Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) that is widespread across the globe, this dataset presents South Africa's total cumulative positive COVID-19 cases, per day, from 5th of March 2020 upto and including 2nd of April 2020.
The covid19-za-cumulativetotals.csv dataset was prepared by referring to the statistics of the daily press releases posted on South Africa's COVID-19 online resource and news portal. The dataset shows the cumalative total positive COVID-19 cases per day in South Africa, since the first reported case in the country, which was on the 5th of March 2020, upto and including the 2nd of April 2020 (which are the latest reported results, as at the writing of this notebook). There is therefore, 27 rows of data. Of these 27 rows, the provincial totals for Date = 27 March 2020 was not published by the South Africa's COVID-19 online resource and news portal. Consequently, there is missing data for the provincial columns for this date in the dataset. There are 12 columns: Date, EC, FS, GP, KZN, LP, MP, NC, NW, WC, Unknown and Total.
Possible suggestion(s) for future work: - Try to improve the current Prophet forecast model in the notebook provided. - Try to create a forecast model using the ARIMA forecasting method. - Possibly, try to keep the dataset updated by monitoring the data published on the source and updating the dataset here, accordingly. This will assist by providing more historic data, and, consequently, also has the probability of gaining more accurate forecasts.
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Time series data of COVID-19 cases (rT-PCR-confirmed), hospitalisations (laboratory-confirmed), and hospital-associated deaths (laboratory confirmed) in South Africa, by imputed dates of symptom onset, from the start of the pandemic in March 2020 through April 2022. These data were used to estimate the time-varying reproduction number (R) in South Africa, as described in https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.22.22277932v1.full.
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Analyzing the confirmed coronavirus cases per region in South Africa, Gauteng was hit hardest. As of June 7, 2021, the region with Johannesburg as its capital registered 476,514 cases of COVID-19.
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For updated cases, deaths, and vaccine data please visit the following sources: World Health Organization (WHO)For more information, visit the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.-- Esri COVID-19 Trend Report for 3-9-2023 --0 Countries have Emergent trend with more than 10 days of cases: (name : # of active cases) 41 Countries have Spreading trend with over 21 days in new cases curve tail: (name : # of active cases)Monaco : 13, Andorra : 25, Marshall Islands : 52, Kyrgyzstan : 79, Cuba : 82, Saint Lucia : 127, Cote d'Ivoire : 148, Albania : 155, Bosnia and Herzegovina : 172, Iceland : 196, Mali : 198, Suriname : 246, Botswana : 247, Barbados : 274, Dominican Republic : 304, Malta : 306, Venezuela : 334, Micronesia : 346, Uzbekistan : 356, Afghanistan : 371, Jamaica : 390, Latvia : 402, Mozambique : 406, Kosovo : 412, Azerbaijan : 427, Tunisia : 528, Armenia : 594, Kuwait : 716, Thailand : 746, Norway : 768, Croatia : 847, Honduras : 1002, Zimbabwe : 1067, Saudi Arabia : 1098, Bulgaria : 1148, Zambia : 1166, Panama : 1300, Uruguay : 1483, Kazakhstan : 1671, Paraguay : 2080, Ecuador : 53320 Countries may have Spreading trend with under 21 days in new cases curve tail: (name : # of active cases)61 Countries have Epidemic trend with over 21 days in new cases curve tail: (name : # of active cases)Liechtenstein : 48, San Marino : 111, Mauritius : 742, Estonia : 761, Trinidad and Tobago : 1296, Montenegro : 1486, Luxembourg : 1540, Qatar : 1541, Philippines : 1915, Ireland : 1946, Brunei : 2010, United Arab Emirates : 2013, Denmark : 2111, Sweden : 2149, Finland : 2154, Hungary : 2169, Lebanon : 2208, Bolivia : 2838, Colombia : 3250, Switzerland : 3321, Peru : 3328, Slovakia : 3556, Malaysia : 3608, Indonesia : 3793, Portugal : 4049, Cyprus : 4279, Argentina : 5050, Iran : 5135, Lithuania : 5323, Guatemala : 5516, Slovenia : 5689, South Africa : 6604, Georgia : 7938, Moldova : 8082, Israel : 8746, Bahrain : 8932, Netherlands : 9710, Romania : 12375, Costa Rica : 12625, Singapore : 13816, Serbia : 14093, Czechia : 14897, Spain : 17399, Ukraine : 19568, Canada : 24913, New Zealand : 25136, Belgium : 30599, Poland : 38894, Chile : 41055, Australia : 50192, Mexico : 65453, United Kingdom : 65697, France : 68318, Italy : 70391, Austria : 90483, Brazil : 134279, Korea - South : 209145, Russia : 214935, Germany : 257248, Japan : 361884, US : 6440500 Countries may have Epidemic trend with under 21 days in new cases curve tail: (name : # of active cases) 54 Countries have Controlled trend: (name : # of active cases)Palau : 3, Saint Kitts and Nevis : 4, Guinea-Bissau : 7, Cabo Verde : 8, Mongolia : 8, Benin : 9, Maldives : 10, Comoros : 10, Gambia : 12, Bhutan : 14, Cambodia : 14, Syria : 14, Seychelles : 15, Senegal : 16, Libya : 16, Laos : 17, Sri Lanka : 19, Congo (Brazzaville) : 19, Tonga : 21, Liberia : 24, Chad : 25, Fiji : 26, Nepal : 27, Togo : 30, Nicaragua : 32, Madagascar : 37, Sudan : 38, Papua New Guinea : 38, Belize : 59, Egypt : 60, Algeria : 64, Burma : 65, Ghana : 72, Haiti : 74, Eswatini : 75, Guyana : 79, Rwanda : 83, Uganda : 88, Kenya : 92, Burundi : 94, Angola : 98, Congo (Kinshasa) : 125, Morocco : 125, Bangladesh : 127, Tanzania : 128, Nigeria : 135, Malawi : 148, Ethiopia : 248, Vietnam : 269, Namibia : 422, Cameroon : 462, Pakistan : 660, India : 4290 41 Countries have End Stage trend: (name : # of active cases)Sao Tome and Principe : 1, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines : 2, Somalia : 2, Timor-Leste : 2, Kiribati : 8, Mauritania : 12, Oman : 14, Equatorial Guinea : 20, Guinea : 28, Burkina Faso : 32, North Macedonia : 351, Nauru : 479, Samoa : 554, China : 2897, Taiwan* : 249634 -- SPIKING OF NEW CASE COUNTS --20 countries are currently experiencing spikes in new confirmed cases:Armenia, Barbados, Belgium, Brunei, Chile, Costa Rica, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mauritius, Portugal, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan 20 countries experienced a spike in new confirmed cases 3 to 5 days ago: Argentina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Korea - South, Lithuania, Mozambique, New Zealand, Panama, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates 47 countries experienced a spike in new confirmed cases 5 to 14 days ago: Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Congo (Kinshasa), Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Finland, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Malta, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Saint Lucia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Suriname, Thailand, Tunisia, US, Uruguay, Zambia, Zimbabwe 194 countries experienced a spike in new confirmed cases over 14 days ago: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Kinshasa), Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea - South, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan*, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Tuvalu, US, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe Strongest spike in past two days was in US at 64,861 new cases.Strongest spike in past five days was in US at 64,861 new cases.Strongest spike in outbreak was 424 days ago in US at 1,354,505 new cases. Global Total Confirmed COVID-19 Case Rate of 8620.91 per 100,000Global Active Confirmed COVID-19 Case Rate of 37.24 per 100,000Global COVID-19 Mortality Rate of 87.69 per 100,000 21 countries with over 200 per 100,000 active cases.5 countries with over 500 per 100,000 active cases.3 countries with over 1,000 per 100,000 active cases.1 country with over 2,000 per 100,000 active cases.Nauru is worst at 4,354.54 per 100,000.
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TwitterSince the COVID-19 outbreak emerged, SARS-CoV-2 has continuously evolved into variants with underlying mutations associated with increased transmissibility, potential escape from neutralizing antibodies, and disease severity. Although intensive research is ongoing around the world to understand the mutational patterns of the virus, there are concerns about the potential to alter the dynamics and the resultant public health impact. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in South Africa has been characterized by periods of infections with four major epidemic waves. Here, we report on the genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 variants circulating in the Free State province in each of the four waves during the 2020-2021 genomic surveillance period. For analysis of the circulating variants, a total of 1290 samples from qPCR confirmed SARS-CoV-2 positive individuals were subjected to viral RNA extraction, genomic amplification, and sequencing. Variant assignment of the viral sequences and mutation identification were conducted using PANGOLIN and SARS-CoV-2 genome annotator, respectively. Our analysis revealed that during the initial part of the first wave, B.1, B.1.1, B.1.1.53, B.1.1.448 and B.1.237 circulated in the Free State province, followed by Beta variant, B.1.351 later in the wave. Although most of the initially detected variants disappeared during the second wave, the Beta variant, B.1.351, persisted. Early in the third wave, the Beta variant, B.1.351, predominated but was replaced by the Delta sub-lineage, AY.45. The fourth wave was characterized by unique emergence of the Omicron sub-variant, BA.1. The data further indicates that SARS-CoV-2 in the Free State accumulated amino acid mutations on the spike protein across the four waves of infections. Each wave of infection was driven by a unique combination of SARS-CoV-2 variants. Findings from this study highlight the importance of continued genomic surveillance and monitoring of the circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants to inform public health efforts and ensure adequate control of the ongoing pandemic.
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Data is based on accumulation means the cases of previous month are add to the new month and in the last row of Dataset contain the Total of all.
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TwitterAs of November 18, 2022, the overall deaths due to coronavirus (COVID-19) in Africa reached 257,984. South Africa recorded the highest number of casualties. With over 100,000 deaths, the country accounted for roughly 40 percent of the total. Tunisia was the second most affected on the continent, as the virus made almost 30,000 victims in the nation, around 11 percent of the overall deaths in Africa. Egypt accounted for around 10 percent of the casualties on the continent, with 24,600 victims. By the same date, Africa had recorded more than 12 million cases of COVID-19.
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This Project Tycho dataset includes a CSV file with COVID-19 data reported in SOUTH AFRICA: 2020-01-03 - 2021-07-31. It contains counts of cases and deaths. Data for this Project Tycho dataset comes from: "COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University", "European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control Website", "World Health Organization COVID-19 Dashboard". The data have been pre-processed into the standard Project Tycho data format v1.1.
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The African continent fighting the pandemic
The African continent first came in contact with the coronavirus pandemic on February 14, 2020, in the northernmost part, particularly Egypt. Since then, the different governments took severe restrictive measures to try to curb the spread of the disease. Moreover, the official numbers of the African continent are significantly lower than those of Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. Nevertheless, the infectious disease still managed to have its effects on several countries. South Africa had the highest number of deaths. Morocco and Tunisia, the second and third most affected in Africa, recorded 16,002 and 27,824 deaths, respectively, while Egypt registered at 24,132 as of March 02, 2022.
The light at the end of the tunnel
Although the African countries still have a long way to fully combat the virus, vaccination programs have been rolled out in the majority of Africa. Also, according to a survey, public opinion in several African countries shows a high willingness to be vaccinated, with Ethiopia having numbers as high as 94 percent. As of March 2022, Egypt was the country administering the highest number of vaccine doses, however, Seychelles had the highest per rate per 100 people .