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1. COVID-19 in AfricarnThe global emergence of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in December, 2019 became a major turning point in the global health system. As at 4th May, 2020, the Republic of South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria had 6783, 6465 and 2558 confirmed cases of COVID-19, respectively[1]. Surprisingly, the number of cases in South Africa has risen to 563598 cases with 10621 deaths, and the number of cases in Egypt has increased to 95666 cases with 5035 deaths while Nigeria has 46867 cases with 950 deaths[2]. Many African countries that were not having any reported cases of COVID-19 before now have confirmed cases while some experienced a huge spike in the number of confirmed cases due to SARS Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). As at 10th August, 2020, the situation report of the African COVID-19 cases have surpassed the record of 1 million (1055964) and deaths stood at 23582 with 744438 recoveries[3].