The number of confirmed new coronavirus cases in Africa has topped the 1 million mark, with the death tally now standing at more than 22,000, the World Health Organization said Friday.
Still a lack of testing on the continent, which has a population of 1.3 billion people, leaves the real spread of the virus unknown, health experts say.
An official checks a worshipper’s temperature before she enters the Lagos State Secretariat Central Mosque in Lagos on August 7, 2020. (NurPhoto/Getty/Kyodo)
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