According to the African Union Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the total number of cases in the region is 4,709,921 and the number of recovered cases is 4,261,603, up 15,054 in the last 24 hours.
Southern Africa remains the most affected region, with 2,018,985 cases and 63,351 deaths associated with covid-19 disease.
Within this region, South Africa alone, the country hardest hit by covid-19 on the continent, accounts for 1,617,840 cases and 55,340 deaths.
North Africa is the second hardest hit area, with 1,419,368 infected and 42,501 deaths.
East Africa records 633,646 infections and 12,286 deaths, while in West Africa the number of infections is 468,188 and the number of deaths is 6181. In Central Africa, infection cases amount to 169,734 and there are 2682 recorded deaths.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths after South Africa, records 14,441 deaths and 248,078 infected, followed by Tunisia with 11,971 deaths and 328,528 cases of infection. Morocco accounts for 515,420 cases of infection and 9105 deaths associated with covid-19.
Also among the most affected countries are Ethiopia, with 4021 deaths and 267,100 infections, and Algeria, with 3388 deaths and 125,693 infected.
Regarding the Portuguese-speaking countries, Mozambique records 828 deaths and 70,485 cases, followed by Angola (685 deaths and 31,049 cases of infection), Cape Verde (252 deaths and 28,410 cases), Equatorial Guinea (112 deaths and 7694 cases), Guinea-Bissau (67 deaths and 3746 cases) and Sao Tome and Principe (35 deaths and 2314 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 3,391,849 deaths worldwide, resulting from more than 163.5 million cases of infection, according to an assessment by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
