WATCH: SA accounts for third of new Covid-19 cases in Africa - WHO
World Health Organisation (WHO) Director of the Regional Office for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, says rising Covid-19 infections in South Africa account for a third of newly reported cases.
Moeti briefed the media on the latest Covid-19 update across the continent on Thursday afternoon.
Moeti said Africa has seen an increase of 17 % of Covid-19 infections and 65 000 news cases reported on Thursday.
She pointed out to the media that the continent has 4.7 million confirmed cases and 128 000 lives lost.
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"While it is too soon to say if Africa is seeing a resurgence, however, we are seeing an increase in a number of countries. We are monitoring the situation very closely and we see that we are balancing of a knife's edge.
"South Africa accounts for almost a third of these new cases, with two out of nine provinces already experiencing a third wave, in fact, most of the provinces are seeing an increase in a number of cases," said Moeti.
Moeti pleaded with countries with an excess vaccine to donate them to the Covax facility.
She appealed France decision to donate 31 000 does to Covax.
Moeti revealed that 28 million vaccines have been administered on the continent, however, 200 million more are still needed.
