According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), the total number of cases is 2,879,193 and there are now 2,378,090 recovered, plus 18,584 in the last 24 hours.
Southern Africa remains the most affected region with 1,267,119 cases and 32,718 deaths.
In this region, South Africa, the most affected covid-19 country on the continent, accounts for a total of 1,127,759 infections and 30,524 deaths, accounting for more than half of the deaths and almost half of the cases registered throughout Africa in the last 24 hours.
North Africa is the second most affected area by the pandemic, with 955,427 cases of infection and 25,121 deaths.
East Africa registers 327,804 infections and 6085 deaths, West Africa 252,619 infections and 3337 deaths, while Central Africa registers 76,224 cases and 1494 deaths.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths, after South Africa, has 7918 deaths and 144,583 infected, followed by Morocco, with 7581 deaths and 445,439 infected.
Among the six countries most affected are also Tunisia, with 4934 deaths and 147,061 infected, Algeria, with 2782 deaths and 100,873 cases, Ethiopia, with 1963 deaths and 126,241 infections, and Kenya, with 1690 deaths and 97,127 infected.
In relation to Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola registered 410 deaths and 17,756 cases, followed by Mozambique (171 deaths and 19,542 cases), Cape Verde (113 deaths and 11,983 cases), Equatorial Guinea (86 deaths and 5286 cases), Guinea-Bissau (45 deaths and 2455 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (17 deaths and 1014 cases).
The first case of covid-19 in Africa emerged in Egypt on February 14, and Nigeria was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to register cases of infection on February 28.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,854,305 deaths as a result of more than 85 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a balance sheet made by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected at the end of December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
