According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), the number of deaths is 8115 and the number of infected 306,567, an increase of 9215 cases in the last 24 hours.
The number recovered is 146,212, plus 3467.
Southern Africa has the highest number of cases and this Monday passed the 100,000 (101,669) and accounts for 1978 deaths, the vast majority concentrated in South Africa, the country with the most cases in the entire continent (97,302) and which has 1930 fatalities.
North Africa leads in the number of deaths (3421), in 81,495 infections.
West Africa accounts for 1141 deaths out of 62,421 infections, East Africa 939 deaths and 31,444 cases, while Central Africa has 636 deaths out of 29,538 infections.
Egypt, the African country with the most deaths, this Monday counts 2193 deaths and 55,233 cases of infection, followed by South Africa and then Algeria, with 845 deaths and 11,771 infected.
Among the five countries most affected is also Nigeria, with 518 deaths and this Monday the 20,000 infected (20,244), and Ghana, with 85 deaths in 14,154 infections.
As for the Portuguese-speaking African countries, Guinea-Bissau has the highest number of infections and deaths, with 1541 cases and 17 deaths.
Cape Verde has 890 infections and eight deaths and Sao Tome and Principe accounts for 693 cases and 12 deaths.
Mozambique has 733 infected patients and five deaths and Angola has 183 confirmed cases of covid-19 and nine deaths.
Equatorial Guinea, which is part of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), has 1664 cases and 32 deaths, according to the latest report by the government of that country.
The first case of covid-19 in Africa emerged in Egypt on 14 February, and Nigeria was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to register cases of infection on 28 February.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 465,000 lives and infected more than 8.8 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected at the end of December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
