According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), the total number of infected is 3,473,940 and that of recovered in the 55 member states of the organization in the last 24 hours was 24,531, for a total of 2,955,394 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Southern Africa remains the most affected region, with 1,654,134 infected and 46,018 dead. South Africa alone, the most affected country by covid-19 in the continent, registers 1,423,578 cases and 41,797 deaths.
North Africa is the second most affected area by the pandemic, with 1,069,076 infected and 28,708 dead.
East Africa accounts for 355,055 infections and 6681 deaths, while West Africa has 309,358 infections and 3900 deaths. In Central Africa there are 86,317 cases and 1591 deaths, the same number as 24 hours ago.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths, after South Africa, registers 9067 deaths and 163,129 infected, followed by Morocco with 8187 deaths and 467,493 infected.
Among the six countries most affected are also Tunisia, with 6370 deaths and 200,662 infected, Algeria, with 2871 deaths and 105,994 cases, Ethiopia, with 2075 deaths and 134,569 infections, and Kenya, with 1750 deaths and 100,093 infected.
In Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola registered 462 deaths and 19,553 cases of infection, followed by Mozambique (329 deaths and 34,055 cases), Cape Verde (129 deaths and 13,619 cases), Equatorial Guinea (86 deaths and 5454 cases), Guinea-Bissau (45 deaths and 2542 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (17 deaths and 1210 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 2,149,818 deaths from more than 100 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a review by Johns Hopkins University in the USA.
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.
