According to the African Union's Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the number of infected people went from 259,036 to 267,519, plus 8483.
The number of recovered is 122,661, plus 4189.
Southern Africa is the one with the highest number of cases, (84,285) - and 1711 dead - the vast majority concentrated in South Africa, the country with the most cases in the entire continent, passing 80 thousand (80,412) and where there are 1674 fatalities.
North Africa continues to lead in total deaths, passing the three thousand (3015), accounting for 73,136 infections.
West Africa has 1038 deaths out of 55,424 infected, East Africa has 867 fatalities and 28,811 cases, while in Central Africa there are 566 deaths out of 25,863 infections.
Egypt is the country with the most deaths (1850) in 49,219 infections, followed by South Africa and then Algeria, with 799 fatalities and 11,268 infected.
Among the five most affected countries is Nigeria, with 469 dead and 17,735 infected, and Ghana, with 66 deaths from 12,590 infections.
As for the Portuguese-speaking African countries, Guinea-Bissau is the one with the most infections and deaths, with 1492 cases, registering 15 fatalities.
Cape Verde has 782 infections and seven deaths and São Tomé and Príncipe accounts for 683 cases and 12 deaths.
Mozambique counts 651 infected patients and four dead and Angola has 155 confirmed cases of covid-19 and seven dead.
Equatorial Guinea, which is part of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), records 1664 cases and 32 deaths, according to the last report by the Government of that country.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 445,000 deaths and infected more than 8.2 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
