This was reported on the organization's Twitter page.
"More than 900,000 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Africa," the statement said.
Over 900,000 confirmed # COVID19 cases on the African continent - with more than 550,000 recoveries & 19,000 deaths.
View country figures & more with the @WHO African Region # COVID19 Dashboard: https://t.co/V0fkK8dYTgpic.twitter.com/uCE7jziNQE
At the same time, it is indicated that more than 19 thousand people have died from coronavirus in the region, over 550 thousand have recovered.
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.