According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), the total number of infected in the 55 member states of the organization is 3,579,368 and that of recovered is 22,011, for a total of 3,074,154 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Southern Africa remains the most affected region, with 1,708,718 infected and 49,224 dead. South Africa, the most affected country by covid-19 in the continent, registers 1,456,309 cases and 44,399 deaths.
North Africa is the second most affected area by the pandemic, with 1,091,565 infected and 29,683 dead.
East Africa accounts for 362,616 infections and 6882 deaths, while West Africa has 327,676 infections and 4113 deaths. In Central Africa there are 88,793 cases and 1622 deaths.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths, after South Africa, registers 9360 deaths and 166,492 infected, followed by Morocco, with 8297 deaths and 471,438 cases.
Among the six countries most affected are also Algeria, with 2896 deaths and 107,486 cases, Ethiopia, with 2103 deaths and 138,384 infections, and Kenya, with 1766 deaths and 100,856 infected.
In Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola registered 466 deaths and 19,829 cases of infection, followed by Mozambique (386 deaths and 39,460 cases), Cape Verde (134 deaths and 14,098 cases), Equatorial Guinea (86 deaths and 5534 cases), Guinea-Bissau (45 deaths and 2635 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (17 deaths and 1256 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 caused at least 2,227,605 deaths from more than 102.8 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.
