According to the African Union Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the new coronavirus is at the origin of 167,183 deaths in the region, while those recovered from the disease now number 5,777,353, up 16,069 in the last 24 hours.
Southern Africa remains the most affected region on the continent, with 3,170,907 infected and 87,059 deaths associated with covid-10. Within this region, South Africa accounts for 2,408,525 infected and 70,908 deaths.
North Africa, which succeeds Southern Africa in the covid-19 numbers, has reached 1,897,161 cases and 53,408 deaths associated with the disease.
East Africa accounts for 791,401 infections and 16,770 deaths, and the West African region records 524,524 infections and 6807 deaths.
Central Africa is the region of the continent with the fewest infections and deaths: 203,741 cases and 3139 deaths, respectively.
Tunisia, the second African country with the most deaths after South Africa, records 19,027 deaths and 578,962 cases, followed by Egypt, with 16,507 deaths and 284,128 infected, and Morocco, which has the second highest number of infections in the entire continent, 597,876 cases, but fewer deaths than the previous two countries, with 9665 deaths associated with the disease.
Among the most affected countries are also Ethiopia, with 4376 deaths and 279,153 infections, and Algeria, with 4161 deaths and 167,131 infected.
Regarding the Portuguese-speaking countries, Mozambique registers 1367 deaths and 115,886 cases of infection accumulated since the beginning of the pandemic and Angola accounts for 1000 deaths associated with the disease and 42,288 infected accumulated.
Cape Verde records 298 disease-associated deaths and 33,682 infections, Equatorial Guinea 123 deaths and 8880 cases, Guinea-Bissau counts 74 deaths and 4334 infected, and São Tomé and Príncipe 37 deaths and 2432 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 4,179,675 deaths worldwide, among more than 195.2 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 UK, India, South Africa, Brazil and Peru.
