According to the African Union Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC Africa) newsletter, in the last 24 hours, the number of recorded deaths has risen from 744 to 788, while infections have increased from 13,686 to 14,528.
The CDC Africa also registered 2,570 patients recovered from infection.
North Africa remains the region most affected by the disease with 6,379 cases, 603 deaths and 1,138 recovered patients.
In southern Africa, there are 2,325 registered cases of the disease, which has already caused 35 deaths, with 452 patients recovering from infection.
In West Africa, there are 3,361 registered infections, 84 deaths and 664 recovered patients.
The pandemic affects 52 out of 55 countries and territories in Africa, with four countries - South Africa, Algeria, Egypt and Morocco - concentrating more than half of the infections and deaths associated with the new coronavirus.
South Africa has the highest number of cases (2,173), with 25 deaths, but the highest number of deaths is in Algeria (293), with 1,914 infected.
Egypt has 2,065 infected and 159 dead, while Morocco has 1,651 cases and 118 fatalities.
Only Lesotho, the Comoros and Western Sahara have no reported cases of the disease.
All Portuguese-speaking African countries have reported cases of covid-19, with Guinea-Bissau being the most affected, accounting for 39 people infected with the new coronavirus.
Angola has 19 confirmed cases of covid-19 and two deaths.
Mozambique has 21 reported cases of infection with the new coronavirus and Cape Verde totals ten cases of infection since the beginning of the pandemic, including one dead.
Sao Tome and Principe, the last Portuguese-speaking African country to detect the disease in its territory, has four confirmed cases.
In Equatorial Guinea, which is part of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), 21 positive cases of infection have been confirmed.
The new coronavirus, responsible for the covid-19 pandemic, has already caused more than 112,000 deaths and infected more than 1.8 million people in 193 countries and territories.
Of the cases of infection, almost 375,000 are considered cured.
After the outbreak in China in December, it spread around the world, leading the World Health Organisation (WHO) to declare a pandemic situation.
