As the global pandemic takes root in Africa, the continent now faces an uphill battle against coronavirus pandemic. The Covid-19 was confirmed to have spread to Africa on 14 February 2020. The first confirmed case on the continent was in Egypt, and the first confirmed case in sub-Saharan Africa was in Nigeria. Most of the identified imported cases have arrived from Europe and the United States rather than from China.
member of Kenya Red Cross demonstrates hand-washing to members of the deaf community in Nairobi amid the COVID-19 pandemic [Georgina Smith/Al Jazeera]Sisi Ndebele, receives a seasonal influenza vaccine from a nurse at a local pharmacy clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa at 1800 on Friday, April 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)In this photo taken Tuesday, March 24, 2020, Amado Compaore sits outside his house days after his wife Rose Marie Compaore died from the new coronavirus, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)An egg-seller walks past food supply trucks parked at a garage in Lagos. Photo: Reuters/TEMILADE ADELAJAIn this March 22, 2020, file photo, a municipal worker sanitizes the street of Dakar’s popular Medina neighborhood after a bulldozer demolished informal shops in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui, File)A woman sells hand sanitizers in Nairobi [Georgina Smith/Al Jazeera]In this March 20, 2020, file photo, a boda-boda, or motorcycle taxi, driver wears a makeshift mask made from a local fabric known as Kitenge as he looks for customers in the Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya. (AP Photo/Patrick Ngugi, File)In this April 2, 2020, file photo, a health inspection officer shows doctors how to use protective equipment before they head to a ward at Mbagathi hospital for patients under quarantine and confirmed cases with the new coronavirus, at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)A health worker speaks with another health worker before performing tests for COVID-19 coronavirus at the screening and testing tents set up at the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, on April 15, 2020.Michele Spatari/AFP via Getty ImagesIn this April 1, 2020, cars line up at a private COVID-19 testing station in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg, South Africa. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)A member of medical staff arrives for a screening and testing campaign aimed to combat the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Lenasia, South Africa, April 21, 2020. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
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