According to the African Union Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the total number of cases on the continent is 5,212,840 and the number of recovered cases is 4,622,512, up 28,507 in the last 24 hours.
Southern Africa remains the most affected region of the continent, with 2,311,173 cases and 68,050 deaths associated with covid-19. This region is home to the country worst hit by the pandemic, South Africa, which accounts for 1,823,319 cases and 58,702 deaths, more than the entire second worst affected African region.
North Africa, which succeeds Southern Africa in the covid-19 figures, has reached 1,534,933 infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and 46,602 deaths associated with the disease as of Tuesday.
East Africa counts 698,332 infections and 13,729 deaths, and the West African region records 480,955 cases of infection and 6368 deaths. Central Africa has the fewest cases of infection and deaths, 187,447 and 2946 respectively.
Egypt, the second African country with the most deaths after South Africa, records 15,859 deaths and 277,288 infected, followed by Tunisia, with 14,038 deaths and 382,950 cases, and Morocco, which accounts for the second highest number of infections in the entire continent, 526,651 cases, but fewer deaths than the previous two countries, 9238 deaths associated with the disease.
Among the most affected countries are also Ethiopia, with 4283 deaths and 275,194 infections, and Algeria, with 3762 deaths and 135,928 infected.
Regarding the Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola has 868 deaths associated with the disease and 37,748 cumulative infections since the beginning of the pandemic, and Mozambique has 848 deaths and a total of 72,577 cumulative infection cases. Cape Verde registers 283 deaths associated with the disease and 32,039 cases of infection, Equatorial Guinea 120 deaths and 8708 cases, Guinea-Bissau counts 69 deaths and 3825 cases and Sao Tome and Principe 37 deaths and 2360 infections.
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 3,868,393 deaths worldwide, resulting from more than 178.4 million cases of infection, according to an assessment by French news agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
