According to the regional organization, Africa also has 4,924,099 recoveries since the first case recorded on the continent, in Egypt, on February 14, 2020.
Southern Africa remains the most affected region on the continent, with 2.6 million cases and 73,000 deaths associated with covid-19. In this region, is the country most affected by the pandemic, South Africa, which accounts for 2,062,896 cases and 61,840 deaths.
North Africa, which succeeds southern Africa in covid-19 numbers, has reached 1.6 million people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and about 48,500 deaths associated with the disease.
East Africa accounts for 733.3 thousand infections and 15,400 deaths, and the West Africa region registers 489 thousand cases of infection and 6,500 deaths. Central Africa has the fewest cases of infection and deaths, 193,200 and 3,000 respectively.
Egypt, the second African country with more fatalities after South Africa, registers 16,264 deaths and 282,082 infected, followed by Tunisia, with 15,377 deaths and 443,631 cases, and Morocco, which accounts for the second highest number of infections in the entire continent, 534,550 cases, but fewer deaths than the two previous countries, 9319 deaths associated with the disease.
Among the countries most affected are Ethiopia, with 4331 deaths and 276,435 infections, and Algeria, with 3755 deaths and 141,471 infected.
In relation to Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola counts 915 deaths associated with the disease and 39,300 infected people accumulated since the beginning of the pandemic, and Mozambique registers 912 deaths and 80,888 cases of accumulated infection.
Cape Verde registers 288 deaths associated with the disease and 32,745 infections, Equatorial Guinea 122 deaths and 8759 cases, Guinea-Bissau registers 69 deaths and 3881 infected and São Tomé and Príncipe 37 deaths and 2377 infections.
The first covid-19 case in Africa emerged in Egypt on February 14, 2020, and Nigeria was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to report cases of infection, on February 28th.
The covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 3,980,935 deaths worldwide, resulting from more than 183.7 million cases of infection with the new coronavirus, according to the most recent assessment made by the Agence France-Presse.
The respiratory disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, detected at the end of 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China, and currently with variants identified in countries such as the United Kingdom, India or South Africa.
