Estimation of fatality rate in Africa through the behavior of COVID-19 in Italy relevance to age profiles

The emergence and pandemic of COVID-19 has rapidly become a global concern. In Italy, on 27 March 2020, there\r\n were 8165 deaths and 80539 confirmed cases of COVID-19. Demographic situations, like age profiles is reported\r\n to be the cause of high case fatality rate (CFR) in Italy. In Africa, the COVID-19 pandemic has not yet grasped epic\r\n proportion, but the estimation of CFR is still needed. We compared the CFR observed in Italy with the age profiles\r\n in 46 Africa countries and 2 territories which are already confirmed COVID-19 case. The estimation of the CFR\r\n in Africa ranges between (1.0%-5.4%) while in Italy is 10.1%. The five highest CFR countries and territories in\r\n Africa are Reunion (5.4%), Mauritius (5.1%), Tunisia (3.9%), Seychelles (3.8%) and Morocco (3.3%). The last three\r\n countries with low CFR are Uganda (1.0%), Zambia (1.1%) and Angola (1.1%). The observed difference is related\r\n to the age profiles.