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ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA - MARCH 10: Africa CDC head Dr. John Nkengasong speaks to the reporters at the African Union headquarters on March 10, 2020 in Addis Ababa.The number of coronavirus cases in Africa has reached 102 confirmed with one death, said the African Union's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).This came in an update Africa CDC head Dr. John Nkengasong gave to reporters at the African Union headquarters on Tuesday.COVID-19 hit a number of northern, western and southern African countries since a first case was confirmed in Egypt on Feb. 14.“As of today, there are about 102 cases in 10 African countries, with one death,” Nkengasong said, listing the affected countries as Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Togo and Tunisia.Describing some of the activities of Africa CDC, Nkengasong said: “Africa CDC has distributed testing kits capable of testing over 10,000 people, purchasing more emergency medical items including test kits, thermal scanners and other critical medical supplies and stockpiling them to meet the requests from member states."“Hundreds of representatives of member states have been trained in enhanced surveillance, infection prevention and control, risk communication and case management.“43 African countries now have the capacity to test for the virus and have supplies of test kits,” he added.“80% of people infected have very mild symptoms,” he said in response to a question if black people were genetically more immune to the virus. “There is no scientific evidence on this.”According to him, it might be also that the vast majority of the population in Africa is young that the spread of the virus so far has relatively been slower compared to elsewhere.The coronavirus was first detected last December in Wuhan, China.(Footage by Mohammed Abdu Abdulbaqi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)