Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Introduction On 10th of January 2020, Chinese health offcials reported 41 cases of pneumonia due to a novel corona virus (2019-nCoV), including seven patients with severe illness and one death. Symptoms have included fever, cough, and diffculty breathing. 1 The earliest diagnosis date for a case identifed in China is 08 December 2019. Preliminary analysis of viral genomes from China and other countries suggests that initial transmission from a zoonotic reservoir to humans could have occurred as early as late October. The frst cases reported had links to a seafood and live animal market in Wuhan, China, suggesting infection of humans from an animal source. 2,3 Health authorities in China have limited transportation in and out of heavily affected cities and are continuing to monitor close contacts, including health care workers, for illness. Several territories in Asia and countries across the globe are screening incoming travelers from Wuhan. Corona viruses (COVID-19) are large family of viruses. There are several known human corona viruses that usually only cause mild respiratory disease, such as the common cold. However, at least twice previously, corona viruses have emerged to infect people and cause severe disease: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). 4–6 The cases in this outbreak tested negative for both SARS and MERS. Clinical characteristics of infection, such as incubation period, have not yet been determined. Based on the incubation period of SARS and MERS, signs of 2019- nCoV could appear from 2-14 days after exposure. Human to human transmission has been documented, and healthcare workers have been infected. Like other corona viruses, people may be infectious before showing any symptoms of the disease. 3,7 As of 9 am, 14 April 2020, a total of 15,284 COVID-19 cases and 816 (CFR: 5%) deaths have been reported in 52 African countries. Out of 52 Member States that have reported cases, six have community transmission, 44 have local transmission and two have imported cases only. Since the last brief, the number of COVID-19 cases has increased by 52% (5,198 cases). The fve countries in Africa with the highest cumulative number of cases (proportion of reported cases in Africa) are South Africa (2,272; 15%), Egypt (2,190; 14%) Algeria(1,914; 13%), Morocco (1,763; 12%) and Cameroon (820; 5%). When population is taken into consideration, Djibouti (30.2), Mauritius (25.5), Seychelles (11.2), Tunisia (6.1), and Morocco (4.8) are reporting the most cases per 100,000 population within the continent. Fifteen countries are reporting case fatality rates higher than the global case fatality rate of 6%. See Figure 1 for the full list of countries in Africa reporting cases, deaths, and COVID-19 recoveries in addition to transmission type being reported. Africa CDC is working with all affected countries and is mobilizing laboratory, surveillance, and other response support where requested. 8-11 Figure 1 COVID-19 pandemic in Africa as at 24th of April 2020. Source: Africa CDC (https://africacdc.org/covid-19). Intervention of Africa CDC response a) Africa CDC activated its Emergency Operations Center and Incident Management System (IMS) for the 2019-nCoV outbreak on 27 January 2020. MOJ App Bio Biomech. 2020;4(3):67‒71. 67 ©2020 Odunayo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and build upon your work non-commercially. Monitoring corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak in Africa Volume 4 Issue 3 - 2020 Braimah Joseph Odunayo, Edike Nnamdi, Elakhe Sarah Oluwatosin Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria Correspondence: Braimah Joseph Odunayo, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Ambrose Alli University, PMB 14, Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria, Email Received: April 25, 2020 | Published: June 24, 2020 Abstract This study is a monitoring analysis of COVID-19 in Africa. The data used for the study is sourced from the Africa Centre for disease Control (Africa CDC) as t 10:00PM on the 24th of April, 2020 which comprises number of Africa countries with laboratory confrmed cases, number of death and number of discharged/recovered cases. The quality pandemic monitoring/control tools used in this study is fsh-bone diagram, Pareto analysis, control chart, bar chart and pie chart. The fsh bone diagram depicts the likely symptoms to check out for in a patent infected by COVID-19; the Pareto analysis shows that 14 countries to the left of this line (South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Tunisia, Nigeria, Guinea, Niger and Burkina Faso) constitute 80% of all the infected countries; the trend analysis shows that the spread of the pandemic is still on an increase rate; and lastly, from the performance assessment, it is seen that the pandemic is still under control from the pie chart while the death rate is already out of control. Keywords: fsh bone, pareto, africa, trend, pie chart MOJ Applied Bionics and Biomechanics Research Article Open Access