COVID-19 in Africa

By jagriste

  • First COVID cases are reported

    The very beginning of the pandemic in Africa.

  • 330,000 Cases are reported

    Only 2 months and over 300,000 cases were accumulated. (Maeda, J. M., & Nkengasong, J. N. (2021))

  • Africa CDC launches COVID-19 testing protocols

    The CDC begins to take their testing protocols more seriously.

  • Testing scale increase

    By November, there were 3 million more COVID tests being administered than in April.

  • 600,000 COVID vaccine doses are shipped to Africa

    After other global countries received their vaccines, Africa finally got theirs. (Jerving, S., 2021).

  • 16 Million doses were delivered to 28 African countries

    There were not enough vaccine dosages being delivered for the amount of people in the continent.

  • Nigeria announces that they burnt through all of their vaccine doses

    One of Africa's primary sources burning through millions of doses was a huge indication that the continent was in trouble.

  • Weekly death reports peak

    The lack of doses in the countries began to result in excessive deaths.

  • Not many vaccinations

    Less than 13% of the population is vaccinated in Africa. (Adepoju, P., 2022).