Africa surpasses a million coronavirus cases

Mourners attend the funeral of a Covid-19 victim in Johannesburg, South Africa on July 26, 2020. [AFP]

Coronavirus has now infected more than a million people in Africa, but hopes that the pandemic may be peaking in some countries are also leavened by fear of a second wave.

Nations across the continent have recorded 1,000,054 infections and at least 21,724 deaths, accounting for around five percent of global cases, according to an AFP tally as of Thursday.