According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), the number of infected is 3,337,028 and the number recovered in the 55 member states of the organization in the last 24 hours was 28,621, for a total of 2,784,501 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Southern Africa remains the most affected region, with 1,573,830 infected and 43,304 dead. South Africa alone, the most affected country by covid-19 in the continent, registers 1,360,426 cases and 38,854 deaths.
North Africa is the second most affected area by the pandemic, with 1,041,751 infected and 27,686 dead. East Africa accounts for 347,820 infections and 6564 deaths, while West Africa has 290,662 infections and 3750 deaths. In Central Africa there are 82,965 cases and 1557 deaths, the same number as 24 hours ago.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths, after South Africa, registers 8747 deaths and 158,963 infected, followed by Morocco, with 8043 deaths and 462,542 infected.
Among the six countries most affected are also Tunisia, with 5921 deaths and 188,373 infected, Algeria, with 2849 deaths and 104,503 cases, Ethiopia, with 2044 deaths and 132,034 infections, and Kenya, with 1736 deaths and 99,444 infected.
In relation to Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola registered 444 deaths and 19,083 cases of infection, followed by Mozambique (271 deaths and 29,396 cases), Cape Verde (121 deaths and 13,224 cases), Equatorial Guinea (86 deaths and 5365 cases), Guinea-Bissau (45 deaths and 2478 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (17 deaths and 1170 cases of infection).
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 has caused at least 2,058,226 deaths from more than 96.1 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a review by the French agency AFP.
Covid-19 is a respiratory disease caused by a new coronavirus (virus type) detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
