This was reported on the organization's Twitter.
"In Africa, more than 1 million cases of coronavirus have been confirmed, with more than 700 thousand people recovered and more than 24 thousand died," the statement says.
Over 1 million confirmed # COVID19 cases on the African continent - with more than 770,000 recoveries & more than 24,000 deaths cumulatively.
View country figures & more with the WHO African Region COVID-19 Dashboard: https://t.co/V0fkK8dYTgpic.twitter.com/HR7N3i2MI8
Earlier, the director of the WHO health emergencies program, Michael Ryan, said that the rate of spread of coronavirus infection in Africa is of serious concern.
In July, the FAN also reported that the head of the Department of Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine of the I.M. Sechenov, chief freelance epidemiologist of the Ministry of Health Nikolai Briko called the difficult situation with COVID-19 in the world.