According to the African Union Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the number of patients recovered has reached 5,936,040, including 23,705 in the last 24 hours.
Within this continent, Southern Africa remains the most affected region of the continent, with 3,264,760 infected and 89,564 covid-19 associated deaths.
Within this region, South Africa alone accounts for 2,461,758 infected and 72,437 deaths.
North Africa, which succeeds Southern Africa in covid-19 numbers, has reached 1,971,351 cases and 55,018 deaths associated with the disease.
East Africa accounts for 803,978 infections and 17,054 deaths, and the West African region records 535,070 infections and 6961 deaths.
Central Africa is the region of the continent with the fewest infections and deaths: 205,678 cases and 3155 deaths.
Tunisia, the second african country with the most deaths after South Africa, records 20,067 deaths and 595,532 cases, followed by Egypt, with 16,535 deaths and 284,362 infected, and Morocco, which has the second highest number of infections in the entire continent, 633,923 cases, but fewer deaths than the previous two countries, with 9885 deaths associated with the disease.
Among the most affected countries are also Ethiopia, with 4391 deaths and 280,833 infections, and Algeria, with 4329 deaths and 173,922 infected.
Regarding the Portuguese-speaking countries, Mozambique registers 1479 deaths and 124,962 cases of infection accumulated since the beginning of the pandemic and Angola counts 1018 deaths associated with the disease and 42,920 infected accumulated.
Cape Verde records 298 disease-associated deaths and 33,830 infections, Equatorial Guinea 123 deaths and 8911 cases, Guinea-Bissau counts 76 deaths and 4498 infected and São Tomé and Príncipe 37 deaths and 2454 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 4,227,765 deaths worldwide, among more than 198.2 million cases of infection with the new coronavirus, according to the most recent assessment by the France-Presse news agency.
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.
