According to the African Union Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the total death toll has risen to 98,915 in the last 24 hours.
The total number of those infected in the organization's 55 member states is 3,759,166, and since the start of the pandemic, 3,303,228 people have recovered.
Southern Africa remains the most affected region, with 1,786,467 infected and 53,923 dead.
Within this region, South Africa is the worst-hit country for covid-19 on the continent, with 1,492,909 cases and 48,094 deaths.
North Africa is the second most affected area by the pandemic, with 1,132,114 infected and 31,540 fatalities.
East Africa counts 381,542 infections and 7190 deaths, while in West Africa the number of infections is 364,293 and the number of deaths is 4596.
Central Africa registers 94,750 cases and 1666 deaths.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths after South Africa, registers 10,050 deaths and 174,426 infected, followed by Morocco with 8491 deaths and 478,595 cases.
Among the six most affected countries are also Algeria, with 2945 deaths and 110,802 cases, Ethiopia, with 2209 deaths and 147,825 infections, and Kenya, with 1795 deaths and 103,014 infected.
Regarding the Portuguese-speaking countries, Mozambique records 547 deaths and 50,691 cases, followed by Angola (493 deaths and 20,381 cases of infection), Cape Verde (139 deaths and 14,762 cases), Equatorial Guinea (87 deaths and 5694 cases), Guinea-Bissau (46 deaths and 2924 cases) and Sao Tome and Principe (19 deaths and 1482 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 2,400,543 deaths worldwide, resulting from more than 108.7 million cases of infection, according to an assessment by French news agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
