Coronavirus live updates: Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Ghana... cases, deaths and news

Coronavirus Africa latest: Monday 13 July

Africa Covid-19 update: 20:30 WAT on Monday 13 July (21:30 CEST) 

According to the latest figures published by Johns Hopkins University, 12,977,429 cases have been detected worldwide, with 570,259 deaths and 7,154,492 people recovered.

South Africa: 276,242 cases / 4,079 deaths

Nigeria: 32,558 cases / 740 deaths

Ghana: 24,518 / 139 deaths

35 doctors contract coronavirus in Kwara

Dr Kolade Solagberu, NMA Chairman, disclosed the news during a briefing on Monday in Ilorin.

”Residents should help the doctors to help them by not paying unnecessary visits or consultations to hospitals," he said. "For now, people should avoid visiting the hospital except for life threatening issues.

”We advise people to engage in e-health service instead of physical consultation to avoid contact as much as possible. People should stop unnecessary visit to patients in the hospital. Those who follow a patient waiting to be attended to, are not encouraged for now.

”You should just help us to help you because the less the number of patient we attend to, the less the chances of spreading the virus.

”This is because every patient is a potential Covid-19 case,” he said.

Kenya adds rapid response vehicles to coronavirus fight

Today the CS for Health, Mutahi Kagwe, handed over Rapid Response Vehicles to various counties, procured by the Covid-19 Health Emergency Response Project (C-HREP)