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Section sizes

Section size for COVID-19 timeline by country in Africa (79 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	10,119	10,119
Timelines by country	26	129,155
Algeria	2,939	2,939
Angola	2,415	2,415
Benin	1,248	1,248
Botswana	2,861	2,861
Burkina Faso	2,529	2,529
Burundi	1,458	1,458
Cameroon	994	994
Cape Verde	1,195	1,195
Central African Republic	839	839
Chad	1,964	1,964
Comoros	2,398	2,398
Democratic Republic of the Congo	1,636	2,892
Prevention measures	1,256	1,256
Republic of the Congo	580	580
Djibouti	137	137
Egypt	4,775	4,775
Equatorial Guinea	629	629
Eritrea	692	692
Eswatini	573	573
Ethiopia	4,118	4,118
Territories of France	91	2,648
Mayotte	1,871	1,871
Réunion	686	686
Gabon	719	719
The Gambia	732	732
Ghana	2,065	2,065
Guinea	693	693
Guinea-Bissau	709	709
Ivory Coast	739	739
Kenya	1,288	1,288
Lesotho	950	950
Liberia	1,392	1,392
Libya	1,611	1,611
Madagascar	1,545	1,545
Malawi	2,438	2,438
Mali	622	622
Mauritania	1,664	1,664
Mauritius	6,884	6,884
Morocco	634	634
Mozambique	782	782
Namibia	5,498	5,498
Niger	729	729
Nigeria	4,277	10,942
Lock-down measures	2,037	2,037
High-profile individuals with COVID-19	4,628	4,628
Territories of Portugal	73	172
Madeira	99	99
Rwanda	1,161	1,161
São Tomé and Príncipe	730	730
Senegal	1,977	1,977
Seychelles	1,419	1,419
Sierra Leone	2,763	2,763
Somalia	682	1,346
Somaliland	664	664
South Africa	241	10,878
First Wave (March 2020 – November 2020)	3,616	3,616
Second Wave (December 2020 – April 2021)	5,437	5,437
Third Wave (May 2021–present)	1,584	1,584
South Sudan	1,090	1,090
Territories of Spain	67	2,539
Canary Islands	1,241	1,241
Ceuta	637	637
Melilla	594	594
Sudan	1,612	1,612
Tanzania	3,087	3,087
Togo	1,106	1,106
Tunisia	1,539	1,539
Uganda	1,598	1,598
Territories of United Kingdom	37	5,715
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	5,678	5,678
Western Sahara	1,400	1,400
Zambia	3,457	3,457
Zimbabwe	3,771	3,771
Prevention in other territories	39	1,249
British Indian Ocean Territory	1,210	1,210
References	28	28
External links	394	394
Total	139,696	139,696

Orphaned references in COVID-19 Timeline by country in Africa

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of COVID-19 Timeline by country in Africa's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "afro.who.int":

From Ghana: "Afro.who.int" (PDF). Afro.who.int. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 January 2010. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
From COVID-19 pandemic in Africa: "New WHO estimates: Up to 190 000 people could die of COVID-19 in Africa if not controlled". WHO | Regional Office for Africa. 2020-05-07. Archived from the original on 30 March 2021. Retrieved 2020-05-09.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 13:55, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]