This was reported on the organization's Twitter.

"More than 1 million people have recovered (after the coronavirus. -

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) and more than 30 thousand have died," the statement says.

Over 1.2 million confirmed # COVID19 cases on the African continent - with more than 1 million recoveries & 30,000 deaths cumulatively.



View country figures & more with the WHO African Region COVID-19 Dashboard: https://t.co/V0fkK8dYTgpic.twitter.com/egZ9iAjohj

- WHO African Region (@WHOAFRO) September 2, 2020

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, the chief freelance epidemiologist of the Ministry of Health Nikolai Briko called the difficult situation with COVID-19 in the world.