Top 10 study settings in which COVID-19 articles were based on in Africa
| Study setting | Number of studies (n=1296) | Non-original articles (n=630) | Primary research (n=606) | Secondary research (n=60) |
| Whole continent (Africa) | 263 | 198 | 41 | 24 |
| South Africa | 200 | 104 | 89 | 7 |
| Nigeria | 160 | 56 | 98 | 6 |
| Ethiopia | 89 | 13 | 75 | 1 |
| Egypt | 70 | 15 | 54 | 1 |
| Kenya | 60 | 22 | 34 | 4 |
| Uganda | 51 | 22 | 29 | 0 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 48 | 34 | 12 | 2 |
| Morocco | 46 | 18 | 28 | 0 |
| Ghana | 45 | 20 | 25 | 0 |