Across the continent, a total of 100,002 cases had been registered as of 1100 GMT Friday, of which 3,095 were fatal.
South of the Sahara, the highest tolls have been in South Africa and Nigeria .
The continent-wide figure is far behind that of the United States, with 1,577,758 cases, 96,978 of them deaths, and Europe, with 1,974,501 cases and 171,011 deaths. Experts warn that Africa's figures are likely to underestimate the true scale of the pandemic there, due to lack of testing capacity.
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