Talk:COVID-19 pandemic in Africa

WikiProject COVID-19
I've created WikiProject COVID-19 as a temporary or permanent WikiProject and invite editors to use this space for discussing ways to improve coverage of the ongoing 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. Please bring your ideas to the project/talk page. Stay safe, --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 16:45, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Map out of date
The map shows several countries in grey, which within the article are confirmed to have cases. WisDom-UK (talk) 15:20, 17 March 2020 (UTC)


 * to confirm, Somalia, Gambia and Zambia need to be made red (would do this myself but I'm unsure how).WisDom-UK (talk) 20:34, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Madagascar should be added to the map.
There have been confirmed cases in Madagascar later. There has been confirmed cases in Zimbabwe as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.31.201.88 (talk) 16:25, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

First case
Wasn’t the first case in the Canary Islands? Shouldn’t Madeira be added on the list? Ten Islands (talk) 12:53, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Index case
Egypt, or the Canary Islands? 1.64.49.65 (talk) 09:45, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Legends under the map
The legends under the map are totally wrong, there is no country in Africa with more than 10000 confirmed cases. --Giammarco Ferrari (talk) 09:06, 22 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Soon there will be. And it is quite possible that during the summer 2020 the limit of 100,000 cases could also be reached in some countries. One of the major challenges is in testing. If there were enough good quality test sets and reagents (and not just quick tests), many more test locations and more capable personnel (how, when and where samples are taken vs. development of COVID-19; and analysed), it is very likely that we would already have such countries in Africa. Unfortunately, even when Africa CDC, WHO and others have worked hard since February to increase testing capabilities in Africa, the small number of tests (per million) practically every country in Africa limits our real picture of COVID-19 in Africa. see e.g. COVID-19 testing statistics by country (sort per Tested per million people). And the poor situation has not been/is not just in April-May, but could also stay during the summer months of 2020 even if the very optimistic plan of +10 million test sets produced in next four months is successful. See e.g. view of Dr. John Nkengasong in Nature (2020-4-28), where the writer expresses his views diplomatically, due to his position as the boss of Africa CDC. --Paju~enwiki (talk) 15:05, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Update Map for Nigeria and Djibouti?
Both Nigeria and Djibouti have past 1,000 cases. Shouldn't their colors be changed on the maps? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:82E0:A690:35F3:D108:5338:BC19 (talk) 21:45, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Sources for Total confirmed cases.
Hey! What sources do you use on that Total confirmed cases graph? This graph say that on 28 April there was ~45,000 thousands cases, but Coronavirus in Africa tracker say that on 5 May there is 46,968 cases, worldometers say that there is 48,081 cases and the latest report from WHO (4 May) say that there is "only" 30 536 cases. '''So how it is possible that on 28 April we have ~45,000? when few days later (5 May) is ~46.000?''' Natanieluz (talk) 09:06, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Inaccurate graphs
I've removed the active cases graph, as this is inaccurate and unmaintained. I asked the person who created it to fix a few things at User_talk:Yash400 but it hasn't been corrected yet. There are figures missing, and the totals don't match the source. I've also asked an anonymous IP adding data to the total confirmed graph to source this, as there is also missing data, so everything is out, and can't be recreated without confirming a source. Greenman (talk) 22:47, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Infobox and the First outbreak
I think that the section First outbreak should have info about the first outbreak in Africa, and not China. This infobox is headlined "COVID-19 pandemic in Africa", not the world.--Ezzex (talk) 22:04, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

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