As of 1 April 2020 , five African sovereign states have yet to report a COVID-19 case .
Experts say that experience battling Ebola helped some countries prepare for COVID-19.As of 1 April 2020 , four African sovereign states have yet to report a case of COVID-19 : Comoros , Lesotho , [ [ [ South Sudan ] ] , and São Tomé and Príncipe ( as well as the disputed state of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic ) .