Andi is rising fast, according to Reuters data.

It's a grim milestone that other continents hit a while ago.

North America has registered more than half a million deaths.

Europe is approaching 900,000 that a second wave is filling the continent's casualty wards and pushing up fatalities driven by the southern region.

Theo, economic powerhouse of South Africa, has suffered nearly half of all the reported covert 19 deaths for the continent.

It was bad.

It was very bad.

People were dying it.

People were dying.

I don't know how many people I declared before I enter in office during the coffee time.

The the Rain, or Layla, is an emergency care technician and one of the half a million healthcare workers being inoculated as a part of a research study in South Africa.

I'm very happy and very excited, but most countries on the continent have not started getting shots in arms, while richer Western nations have raced ahead with mass immunization programs.

International aid group Doctors Without Borders this month called for urgent vaccine distributions in southern Africa to counter the spread of the 51 y dot V two variant, according to Reuters data, the continent's case fatality rate, the proportion of people dying after becoming infected is 2.6%.

That's higher than the global average of 2.3%.

Though experts warn against reading too much into the data, the real toll could be lower or higher.

In South Africa's epidemic.

For example, excess deaths that's deaths over and above the normal rate have reached over 137,000.

That's almost three times its official covert 19 toll.