According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), the number of infected is 3,142,781 and the number recovered in the 55 member states of the organization in the last 24 hours was 24,073, for a total of 2,562,961 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Southern Africa remains the most affected region, with 1,450,117 infected and 37,891 deaths. South Africa alone, the most affected country by covid-19 in the continent, registers 1,278,303 cases and 35,140 deaths.
North Africa is the second most affected area by the pandemic, having this Thursday surpassed the million infected (1,001,700) and reached 26,434 fatalities.
East Africa accounts for 338,838 infections and 6326 deaths, while in West Africa the number of infections is 272,586 and deaths are 3530 and in Central Africa 79,540 cases and 1528 deaths.
Egypt, which is the second African country with more deaths, after South Africa, registers 8362 deaths and 152,719 infected, followed by Morocco, with 7810 deaths and 455,055 infected.
Among the six countries most affected are also Tunisia, with 5415 deaths and 168,568 infected, Algeria, with 2819 deaths and 102,860 cases, Ethiopia, with 2006 deaths and 129,455 infections, and Kenya, with 1720 deaths and 98,555 infected.
In relation to Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola registered 424 deaths and 18,425 cases, followed by Mozambique (205 deaths and 23,726 cases), Cape Verde (115 deaths and 12,592 cases), Equatorial Guinea (86 deaths and 5316 cases), Guinea-Bissau (45 deaths and 2,478 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (17 deaths and 1090 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 1,963,557 deaths from over 91.5 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a review 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.
