Africa UN Knowledge Hub for COVID-19

Brazzaville – Weekly COVID-19 cases in Africa fell by more than 20%—the sharpest seven-day decline in two months – as the third wave pandemic tapers off.

Brazzaville – As the COVAX Facility is forced to slash planned COVID-19 vaccine deliveries to Africa by around 150 million this year, the continent faces almost 500 million doses short of the global year-end target of fully vaccinating 40% of its population.

Addis Ababa, 16 September 2021 - The pandemic has exacerbated ongoing domestic challenges related to climate, poverty, and hunger and prompted governments across Africa to seek new sources of data to guide policy.

Brazzaville – Fifteen African countries—nearly a third of the continent’s 54 nations—have fully vaccinated 10% of their people against COVID-19.

As COVID-19 has spread around the world, people have become grimly familiar with the death tolls that their governments publish each day. Unfortunately, the total number of fatalities caused by the pandemic may be even higher, for several reasons.

Data is critical to support countries in managing the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This site was introduced in the early stages of the pandemic to provide an array of relevant real-time data, statistical indicators, and knowledge drawn from the World Bank and other authoritative sources.

The IMF is providing financial assistance and debt service relief to member countries facing the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

After a six-week surge, Africa’s fourth pandemic wave driven primarily by the Omicron variant is flattening, marking the shortest-lived surge to date in the continent where cumulative cases have now exceeded 10 million.

As of February 6, 2022, Seychelles was the African country with the highest coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination rate. Morocco registered the second-highest number of inoculations after Egypt. In South Africa, the most affected country on the continent, the vaccination rate reached around 50 per 100 populations.

At the continental level, there has been a 16% decrease in new cases and a 1% increase in new deaths during epidemiological week 4 (24-30 January 2022) compared to epidemiological week 3 (17-23 January 2022).