According to the regional organization, Africa also adds up to 4,989,827 recoveries since the first recorded case on the continent, in Egypt, on February 14, 2020.
Southern Africa remains the most affected region on the continent, with 2,678,634 cases and 74,081 deaths associated with covid-19. This region is home to the country worst hit by the pandemic, South Africa, which has 2,090,909 cases and 62,628 deaths.
North Africa, which succeeds Southern Africa in covid-19 numbers, has reached 1,634,807 infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and some 48,768 deaths associated with the disease.
East Africa accounts for 737,499 infections and 15,521 deaths and the West African region records 490,220,000 cases of infection and 6493 deaths. Central Africa has the fewest cases of infection and deaths, 194,039 and 3057, respectively.
Egypt, the second African country with the most deaths after South Africa, records 16,306 deaths and 282,421 infected, followed by Tunisia, with 15,601 deaths and 455,091 cases, and Morocco, which has the second highest number of infections in the entire continent, 535,974 cases, but fewer deaths than the previous two countries, 9336 deaths associated with the disease.
Among the most affected countries are also Ethiopia, with 4335 deaths and 276,598 infections, and Algeria, with 3775 deaths and 142,447 infected.
Regarding the Portuguese-speaking countries, Mozambique has 923 deaths and 82,346 cases of infection and Angola has 920 deaths associated with the disease and 39,375 infected accumulated since the beginning of the pandemic.
Cape Verde registers 289 deaths associated with the disease and 32,788 infections, Equatorial Guinea 122 deaths and 8775 cases, Guinea-Bissau counts 70 deaths and 3901 infected and São Tomé and Príncipe 37 deaths and 2383 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 3,987,613 deaths worldwide, resulting from more than 184.1 million cases of infection with the new coronavirus, according to the most recent tally by Agence France-Presse.
The respiratory disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China, and currently with variants identified in countries such as the United Kingdom, India or South Africa.
