COVID-19 daily tracker

The COVID-19 daily tracker is an easy guide to daily developments of this pandemic, globally and for Sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa specifically. The PDF (see link in email body, top right) contains a series of informative graphs. 

• The global caseload stands at 9,714,809, and 491,856 deaths have been confirmed. Recoveries from the virus have increased to 5,250,087. US cases have increased to 2,504,588, accounting for 26% of global cases; the US death toll is 126,780. Brazil has 1,233,147 cases and 55,054 deaths; Russia has 613,994 confirmed cases and 8,605 deaths; India has 491,170 cases and 15,308 deaths.
• Africa’s confirmed cases now number 347,247; fatalities are 9,055. Egypt and South Africa remain two hotspots. Egypt has 61,130 reported cases; Nigeria has 22,614; Ghana has 15,473. The World Bank has indicated that the pandemic, together with the sharp slide in crude oil prices, could see Nigeria GDP contract by 3.2% in 2020, from its previous estimate of a 2.1% contraction.
• SA now has 118,375 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 2,292 deaths. This is an increase of 6,579 new cases – the highest daily increase on record; 59,974 people have recovered from the virus. The Western Cape has the highest number of confirmed cases at 56,780 (accounting for 48% of the total); 1,652 deaths have been reported. Gauteng has 28,746 cases (accounting for 24% of the total) and 149 deaths, while the Eastern Cape has 20,487 cases (accounting for 17% of the total) and 363 deaths. KwaZulu-Natal has 6,590 cases and 106 deaths. 1,460,012 tests have been conducted since 5 March; 43,118 were in the past 24 hours.