Africa Covid-19 update: 18:30 WAT on Sunday 5 July (19:30 CEST)
According to the latest figures published by John Hopkins University, 11,317,637 cases have been detected worldwide, with 531,729 deaths and 6,111,910 people recovered.
South Africa: 187,977 cases / 3,026 deaths
Nigeria: 28,167 cases / 634 deaths
Ghana: 20,085 / 122 deaths
South Africa deploys military medics to coronavirus hot spot
Dozens of military medics were deployed on Sunday to help combat the coronavirus pandemic in South Africa's third-most affected province, where there has been a surge in infections.
The deployment to East Cape province comes a day after South Africa recorded more than 10,800 new Covid-19 cases, its biggest single-day jump during the pandemic, taking the cumulative infections to 187,977.
Forty-seven defence force medical personnel landed in the Eastern Cape city of Port Elizabeth to help shore up the health service, which is buckling under the rising number of cases.
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Covid-19 has obvious impact on Malawi ceremony
Malawi’s new President Lazarus Chakwera on Saturday ordered his inauguration ceremony be scaled down amid a surge of coronavirus cases, dampening excitement around his election win.
Chakwera was sworn in last Sunday for a five-year term, hours after unseating Peter Mutharika in a re-run election, and this Monday the country is holding a formal celebration.
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