According to the African Union Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the total number of deaths in the organization's 55 member states is 122,907 and the number of infected is 4,586,147, up 7245 in the last 24 hours.
The number recovered in this period was 9014, up to 4,134,128 since the start of the pandemic.
Southern Africa remains the worst affected region, with 1,973,664 people infected and 62,276 deaths associated with being infected with the disease. Within this region, South Africa, the country hardest hit by covid-19 on the continent, registers 1,586,148 cases and 54,511 deaths.
North Africa is the second hardest hit area, with 1,379,083 infected and 40,477 fatalities.
East Africa counts 610,216 infections and 11,483 deaths, while in West Africa the number of infections is 461,092 and the number of deaths is 6093. In Central Africa, there are 162,092 cases of infection and 2578 deaths recorded.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths after South Africa, records 13,591 deaths and 231,803 infected, followed by Tunisia with 11,016 deaths and 314,152 cases of infection. Morocco counts 512,285 cases of infection and 9038 deaths associated with covid-19.
Also among the most affected countries are Ethiopia, with 3772 deaths and 259,354 infections, and Algeria, with 3289 deaths and 122,999 infected.
Regarding the Portuguese-speaking countries, Mozambique records 817 deaths and 70,031 cases, followed by Angola (609 deaths and 27,284 cases of infection), Cape Verde (228 deaths and 24,742 cases), Equatorial Guinea (112 deaths and 7694 cases), Guinea-Bissau (67 deaths and 3737 cases) and Sao Tome and Principe (35 deaths and 2310 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 3,214,644 deaths worldwide, resulting from more than 153.4 million cases of infection, according to an assessment by the French agency AFP.
