As of November 18, 2022, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa amounted to around 12.7 million, which represented around two percent of the infections around the world. By the same date, coronavirus cases globally were over 640 million, deaths were over six million, while approximately 620 million people recovered from the disease. On the African continent, South Africa was the most drastically affected country, with more than 3.6 million infections.

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 .

As 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.

This dataset provides values for CORONAVIRUS DEATHS reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

Method

The dataset contains several confirmed COVID-19 cases, number of deaths, and death rate in six regions. The objective of the study is to compare the number of confirmed cases in Africa to other regions.

Death rate = Total number of deaths from COVID-19 divided by the Total Number of infected patients.

The study provides evidence for the country-level in six regions by the World Health Organisation's classification.

Findings

Based on the descriptive data provided above, we conclude that the lack of tourism is one of the key reasons why COVID-19 reported cases are low in Africa compared to other regions. We also justified this claim by providing evidence from the economic freedom index, which indicates that the vast majority of African countries recorded a low index for a business environment. On the other hand, we conclude that the death rate is higher in the African region compared to other regions. This points to issues concerning health-care expenditure, low capacity for testing for COVID-19, and poor infrastructure in the region.

Apart from COVID-19, there are significant pre-existing diseases, namely; Malaria, Flu, HIV/AIDS, and Ebola in the continent. This study, therefore, invites the leaders to invest massively in the health-care system, infrastructure, and human capital in order to provide a sustainable environment for today and future generations. Lastly, policy uncertainty has been a major issue in determining a sustainable development goal on the continent. This uncertainty has differentiated Africa to other regions in terms of stepping up in the time of global crisis.

This dataset contains COVID-19 data for African Countries at the National Level (shaped for Wazimap). It includes the following: New COVID-19 Cases per month (Jan 2020 - May 2022) New COVID-19 Death per month (Jan 2020 - May 2022) Number of COVID-19 Tests per month (Feb 2020 - May 2022) Number of Fully Vaccinated Persons per month Cumulative Number of Fully Vaccinated Persons as % of Country Population Cumulative NOTE: This data is no longer being added to the ADH Wazimap. That said, Our World in Data is still publishing this data.

Context

Late in December 2019, the World Health Organisation (WHO) China Country Office obtained information about severe pneumonia of an unknown cause, detected in the city of Wuhan in Hubei province, China. This later turned out to be the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) of the coronavirus family. The disease causes respiratory illness characterized by primary symptoms like cough, fever, and in more acute cases, difficulty in breathing. WHO later declared COVID-19 as a Pandemic because of its fast rate of spread across the Globe with over 2.56 Million confirmed cases and over 177,000 deaths as of April 22, 2020. The African continent started confirming its first cases of COVID-19 in late January and early February of 2020 in some of its countries. The disease has since spread across 52 of the 54 African countries with over 24,000 confirmed cases and over 1,100 deaths as of April 22, 2020.

Content

The COVID-19 Africa dataset contains daily level information about the COVID-19 cases in Africa since January 27th, 2020. It is a time-series data and the number of cases on any given day is cumulative. I extracted the data from the World COVID-19 dataset which was uploaded on Kaggle. The R script that I used to prepare this dataset is also available on my Github repository. The original datasets can also be found on the John Hopkins University Github repository. I will be updating the COVID-19 Africa dataset on a daily basis, with every update from John Hopkins University.

Field description

• ObservationDate: Date of observation in YY/MM/DD
• Country: name of an African country
• Confirmed: the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases
• Deaths: the number of deaths from COVID-19
• Recovered: the number of recovered cases
• Active: the number of people still infected with COVID-19 Note: Active = Confirmed - (Deaths + Recovered)

Acknowledgements

1. John Hopkins University for making COVID-19 datasets available to the public: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/tree/master/csse_covid_19_data/csse_covid_19_daily_reports
2. John Hopkins University COVID-19 Dashboard: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
3. SRk for uploading a global COVID-19 dataset on Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/sudalairajkumar/novel-corona-virus-2019-dataset#covid_19_data.csv
4. United Nations Department of General Assembly and Conference Management: https://www.un.org/depts/DGACM/RegionalGroups.shtml
5. African Arguments: https://africanarguments.org/2020/04/07/coronavirus-in-africa-tracker-how-many-cases-and-where-latest/)
6. Wallpapercave.com: https://wallpapercave.com/covid-19-wallpapers

Inspiration

Possible Insights 1. The current number of COVID-19 cases in Africa 2. The current number of COVID-19 cases -19 cases by country 3. The number of COVID-19 cases in Africa / African country(s) by April 30, 2020 (Any future date)

As of March 15, 2023, Seychelles was the African country with the highest coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination rate, with around 205 doses administered per 100 individuals. Mauritius and Rwanda followed with 201 and 190 doses per 100 people, respectively. Ranking fourth, Morocco had a vaccination rate of approximately 148 doses per 100 people, registering the third-highest number of inoculations after Egypt and Nigeria. In South Africa, the most affected country on the continent, the vaccination rate instead reached around 64 per 100 population.

How did Africa obtain the vaccines?

Vaccines in Africa were obtained in different ways. African nations both purchased new doses and received them from other countries. At the beginning of the vaccination campaigns, donations came from all over the world, such as China, the United Arab Emirates, India, and Russia. The United Nations-led COVAX initiative provided Oxford/AstraZeneca and Pfizer/BioNTech doses to several African countries. Within this program, the continent received nearly 270 million doses as of January 2022. Moreover, the vaccination campaign has also been an occasion for intra-African solidarity. Senegal has, for instance, donated vaccines to the Gambia, while in January 2021, Algeria announced that it would have shared its supply with Tunisia.

COVID-19 impact on the African economy

The spread of COVID-19 negatively affected socio-economic growth in Africa, with the continent’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracting significantly in 2020. Specifically, Southern Africa experienced the sharpest decline, at minus six percent, followed by North Africa at minus 1.7 percent. Most of Africa’s key economic sectors were hit by the pandemic. The drop in global oil prices led to a crisis in the oil and gas sector. Nigeria, the continent’s leading oil-exporting country, witnessed a considerable decrease in crude oil trade in 2020. Moreover, the shrinking number of international tourist arrivals determined a loss of over 12 million jobs in Africa’s travel and tourism sector. Society has also been substantially affected by COVID-19 on the poorest continent in the world, and the number of people living in extreme poverty was estimated to increase by around 30 million in 2020.

Surgo Ventures' Africa CCVI ranks 756 regions across 48 African countries on their vulnerability—or their ability to mitigate, treat, and delay transmission of the coronavirus. Vulnerability is assessed based on many factors grouped into seven themes: socioeconomic status, population density, access to transportation and housing; epidemiological factors; health system factors; fragility; and age. The index reflects risk factors for COVID-19, both in terms of clinical outcomes and socioeconomic impact.

The Africa CCVI is the only index to measure vulnerability to COVID-19 within most countries in Africa at this level of detail. The index is modular to reflect the reality that vulnerability is a multi-dimensional construct, and two regions could be vulnerable for very different reasons. This allows stakeholders to customize pandemic responses informed by vulnerability on each dimension. For example, policymakers can identify areas for scaling up COVID-19 testing that are more vulnerable on theme two - population density - or direct community health workers or mobile health units to areas that are vulnerable due to weak health systems infrastructure. The modularity of the Africa CCVI can help governments design lean and precise responses for subnational regions during each phase of the pandemic.

Data files:

Africa_CCVI_subnational_zenodo.csv: Africa CCVI and seven themes' scores for 756 administrative level-1 regions across 48 countries

Africa_CCVI_country_zenodo.csv: Africa CCVI and seven themes scores across 36 countries (12 countries excluded as country-specific data sources were used for them)

DHS_raw_indicators_Zenodo.csv: this CSV contains indicator data for 36 countries, data was primarily sourced from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in addition to other sources (listed in accvi-data-sources.xlsx)

non_DHS_raw_indicators_Zenodo.csv: 12 countries that did not have a recent DHS, so we used country-specific surveys, MICS UNICEF, and other sources (listed in accvi-data-sources.xlsx)

accvi-data-sources.xlsx: data sources used for ACCVI indicators

zenodo_data_dictionary.csv: names and definitions of variables used in data files

This dataset provides values for CORONAVIRUS CASES reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

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.

See original GitHub repo for detailed information https://github.com/dsfsi/covid19za

In past 24 hours, Central African Republic, Africa had N/A new cases, N/A deaths and N/A recoveries.

South Africa recorded 102595 Coronavirus Deaths since the epidemic began, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, South Africa reported 4072533 Coronavirus Cases. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for South Africa Coronavirus Deaths.

This data set was created with a snapshot of data from the Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Data Repository for South Africa which is created, maintained, and hosted by the Data Science for Social Impact research group, led by Dr. Vukosi Marivate, at the University of Pretoria. These subsets are visualized on the Africa Data Hub Wazimap Portal Disclaimer: The maintainers have worked to keep the data as accurate as possible. The COVID 19 reporting data has been collated from NICD and DoH and is only updated once there is an official report or statement. If you use this repo for any research/development/innovation, please contact the maintainers of the data. Please note that these reports are the daily reports as released by the National Department of Health or the NICD. The new cases reported are based on new positive test reports released. However, there may be a significant lag from when the patient was tested. As an example, in epidemiological Week 1 of 2021 (3-9 Jan) approximately 33k new cases were reported on the daily announcement. However, the NICD Testing Summary Report for Week 3 of 2021 (which also reports the two previous weeks) shows that the number of positive tests was 43635 for Week 1 of 2021. The difference is due to the lag in testing being done -- some of the 33k cases reported on the daily announcements were actually from prior weeks while a large number of people were tested between 3-9 January, but the cases were only reported from the 10th onwards. Care needs to be taken in doing some analyses to take this into account.

The number of Vaccines received and being administered in different countries. Data from WHO - Africa COVID-19 Dashboard, 2021

Daily Update on Covid-19 Cases Reported for Countries in Africa.

New Covid deaths per million people in South Africa, March, 2023 The most recent value is 0 new Covid deaths per million people as of March 2023, compared to the previous value of 0 new Covid deaths per million people. Historically, the average for South Africa from February 2020 to March 2023 is 45 new Covid deaths per million people. The minimum of 0 new Covid deaths per million people was recorded in February 2020, while the maximum of 266 new Covid deaths per million people was reached in January 2021. | TheGlobalEconomy.com

The purpose of this repository is to collate data on the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in Africa. Our goal is to record detailed information on each reported case in every African country. We want to build a line list – a table summarizing information about people who are infected, dead, or recovered. The table for each African country would include demographic, location, and symptom (where available) information for each reported case. The data will be obtained from official sources (e.g., WHO, departments of health, CDC etc.) and unofficial sources (e.g., news). Such a dataset has many uses, including studying the spread of COVID-19 across Africa and assessing similarities and differences to what’s being observed in other regions of the world. See the repo here https://github.com/dsfsi/covid19africa

Around 19.8 percent of Africa's population was fully vaccinated against the coronavirus (COVID-19) as of July 11, 2022. Over 540 million vaccine doses have been administered on the continent since the beginning of the vaccination campaign in 2021. In general, Africa's vaccination rate is far lower than the global average.

Analysis of ‘Covid in African Countries - Latest Data’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/anandhuh/covid-in-african-countries-latest-data on 28 January 2022.

--- Dataset description provided by original source is as follows ---

Content

This dataset contains Covid-19 data of African countries as on January 26, 2022

Attribute Information

• Country - Name of African countries
• Total Cases - Total number of Covid-19 cases
• Total Deaths - Total number of Deaths
• Total Recovered - Total number of recovered cases
• Active Cases - Total number of Active cases
• Total Cases/1 mil population- Total Cases per 1 million of the population
• Deaths/1 mil population - Total Deaths per 1 million of the population
• Total Tests - Total number of Covid tests done
• Tests/1 mil population - Covid tests done per 1 million of the population
• Population - Population of the country

Source

Link : https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

Other Updated Covid19 Datasets

Link : https://www.kaggle.com/anandhuh/datasets

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Context

There's a story behind every dataset and here's your opportunity to share yours.

As the spread of the novel covid-19 continues to run into countries it is important for us to keep records of every Information on it. Therefore, this dataset is built basically to cover the update from Africa.

Content

What's inside is more than just rows and columns. Make it easy for others to get started by describing how you acquired the data and what time period it represents, too. It contains Information on the dates the cases were recorded across Africa. Detailing the death, confirmed and recovery cases in each country.

Acknowledgements

We wouldn't be here without the help of others. If you owe any attributions or thanks, include them here along with any citations of past research.

Ethical AI Club John Hopkins University Runmila Institute WHO CDC Ghana Health Service

Inspiration

Your data will be in front of the world's largest data science community. What questions do you want to see answered? We should be able to see contributors answering questions about how Africa should prepare and put in the right measures to contain the spread. A better understanding from the Data scientists.