According to the African Union's Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the total number of infected people in the organization's 55 member states is 3,626. 960 and that recovered in the last 24 hours is 14,501, for a total of 3,128,534 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Southern Africa remains the most affected region, with 1,731,345 infected and 50,680 killed. South Africa, the country hardest hit by the covid-19 on the continent, has 1,466,767 cases and 45,605 deaths.
North Africa is the second most affected area by the pandemic, with 1,102,755 infected and 30,167 fatalities.
East Africa accounts for 366,467 infections and 6957 deaths, while in West Africa the number of infections is 336,725 and that of deaths is 4210. In Central Africa, 89,668 cases and 1633 deaths are recorded.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most fatalities, after South Africa, registers 9512 deaths and 168,057 infected, followed by Morocco, with 8351 fatalities and 473,667 cases.
Among the six most affected countries are also Algeria, with 2906 deaths and 108,289 cases, Ethiopia, with 2126 deaths and 140,157 infections, and Kenya, with 1773 deaths and 101,339 infected.
In relation to Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola recorded 473 deaths and 19,996 cases of infection, followed by Mozambique (427 deaths and 42,488 cases), Cape Verde (135 deaths and 14,290 cases), Equatorial Guinea (86 deaths and 5578 cases) , Guinea-Bissau (46 deaths and 2692 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (17 deaths and 1298 cases of infection).
