According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), the total number of infected is 3,494,117 and that of recovered in the 55 member states of the organization in the last 24 hours was 21,941, for a total of 2,977,335 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Southern Africa remains the most affected region, with 1,665,050 infected and 46,837 dead. South Africa alone, the most affected country by covid-19 in the continent, registers 1,430,648 cases and 42,550 deaths.
North Africa is the second most affected area by the pandemic, with 1,073,332 infected and 28,872 dead.
East Africa accounts for 356,085 infections and 6696 deaths, while West Africa has 312,935 infections and 3939 deaths. In Central Africa 86,715 cases and 1593 deaths are counted.
Egypt, which is the second African country with more deaths after South Africa, registers 9115 deaths and 163,761 infected, followed by Morocco with 8827 deaths and 468,383 infected.
Among the six countries most affected are also Tunisia, with 6446 deaths and 202,323 infected, Algeria, with 2877 deaths and 106,256 cases, Ethiopia, with 2083 deaths and 135,045 infections, and Kenya, with 1751 deaths and 100,323 infected.
In Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola registered 462 deaths and 19,580 cases of infection, followed by Mozambique (336 deaths and 34,926 cases), Cape Verde (129 deaths and 13,722 cases), Equatorial Guinea (86 deaths and 5492 cases), Guinea-Bissau (45 deaths and 2544 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (17 deaths and 1221 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 2,159,155 deaths from more than 100 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.
