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Covid-19: Africa with 459 more deaths and 21,547 more infected in the last 24 hours

Africa has recorded 459 more covid-19-associated deaths in the last 24 hours, for a total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic of 138,154, and 21,547 new infections, according to the latest official data.

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According to the African Union Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the total number of cases on the continent is 5,234,387 and the number of those recovered from the disease is 4,643,802, up 21,290 in the last 24 hours.

Southern Africa remains the most affected region of the continent, with 2,322,014 cases and 68,174 deaths associated with covid-19. This region is home to the country worst hit by the pandemic, South Africa, which accounts for 1,832,479 cases and 58,795 deaths, more than the entire second worst affected African region.

North Africa, which succeeds Southern Africa in the covid-19 figures, has reached 1,540,961 infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and 46,845 deaths associated with the disease as of Wednesday.

East Africa counts 701,471 infections and 13,796 deaths, and the West African region records 481,634 cases of infection and 6375 deaths. Central Africa has the fewest cases of infection and deaths, 188,307 and 2964, respectively.

Egypt, the second African country with the most deaths after South Africa, records 15,898 deaths and 277,797 infected, followed by Tunisia, with 14,223 deaths and 387,773 cases, and Morocco, which has the second highest number of infections in the entire continent, 526,737 cases, but fewer deaths than those two countries, 9244 deaths associated with the disease.

Among the most affected countries are also Ethiopia, with 4236 deaths and 275,318 infections, and Algeria, with 3772 deaths and 136,294 infected.

Regarding the Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola accounts for 875 deaths associated with the disease and 37,874 infected, followed by Mozambique (852 deaths and 72,775), Cape Verde (284 deaths and 32,111 infections), Equatorial Guinea (120 deaths and 8708 cases), Guinea-Bissau (69 deaths and 3834 infected) 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 3,884,538 deaths worldwide, resulting from more than 179 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.

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