According to the African Union Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the total number of infected in the organization's 55 member states is 3,715,923 and that recovered in the last 24 hours is 15,175, for a total of 3,256,433 since the start of the pandemic.
Southern Africa remains the worst affected region, with 1,769,262 infected and 52,995 dead. Within this region, South Africa, the country hardest hit by covid-19 on the continent, has 1,484,900 cases and 47,382 deaths.
North Africa is the second most affected area by the pandemic, with 1,122,915 infected and 31,101 deaths.
East Africa counts 375,910 infections and 7103 deaths, while in West Africa the number of infections is 354,449 and the number of deaths is 4449.
Central Africa has 93,387 cases and 1651 deaths.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths after South Africa, has 9857 deaths and 171,993 infected, followed by Morocco with 8440 deaths and 477,160 cases.
Among the six most affected countries are also Algeria, with 2932 deaths and 109,957 cases, Ethiopia, with 2171 deaths and 144,862 infections, and Kenya, with 1794 deaths and 102,353 infected.
As for the Portuguese-speaking countries, Mozambique records 501 deaths and 47,790 cases, followed by Angola (487 deaths and 20,261 cases of infection), Cape Verde (139 deaths and 14,601 cases), Equatorial Guinea (87 deaths and 5663 cases), Guinea-Bissau (46 deaths and 2848 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (18 deaths and 1385 cases).
The first case of covid-19 in Africa appeared in Egypt on February 14, 2020, and Nigeria was the first sub-Saharan African country to record cases of infection on February 28.
The covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 2,355,410 deaths worldwide, resulting from more than 107.3 million cases of infection, according to an assessment by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
