More than one million coronavirus tests will be rolled out starting next week in Africa to address the big gap in assessing the true number of cases on the continent, AP reported.

"Maybe 15 million tests will be required in Africa over the next three months," John Nkengasong, the head of the African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, said.

South Africa, the most assertive African nation in testing, has carried out perhaps 80,000 tests so far, Nkengasong said.