The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 47 of the continent’s 54 countries now have cases, with 5,255 in all.
That includes 173 deaths. But shortages of testing materials mean the real number of cases could be higher.
South Africa’s president earlier announced that the country, which has the most cases in Africa, with 1,326, will launch a mass screening and testing program with about 10,000 field workers going door-to-door.
Uganda and Botswana are the latest African countries to impose a lockdown in an effort to prevent the coronavirus spreading.
