According to the latest bulletin from the African Union Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the number of covid-19 associated deaths is now 174,838.
The continent records 6,047,230 recovered patients, including 42,835 in the last 24 hours.
On this continent, Southern Africa remains the most affected region, with 3,323,414 infected and 91,436 covid-19-associated deaths.
Within this region, South Africa alone accounts for 2,497,655 infected and 73,873 deaths.
North Africa, which succeeds Southern Africa in covid-19 numbers, has 2,019,221 cases and 55,938 deaths associated with the disease.
East Africa counts 813,081 infected and 17,204 and the West African region records 543,035 infections and 7096 deaths.
Central Africa is the region of the continent with the fewest infections and deaths: 207,304 cases and 3164 deaths.
Tunisia, the second African country with the most deaths after South Africa, records 20,550 deaths and 599,938 cases, followed by Egypt, with 16,557 deaths and 284,523 infected, and Morocco, which has the second highest number of infections in the entire continent, 665,325 cases, but fewer deaths than the previous two countries, with 10,087 deaths associated with the disease.
Among the most affected countries are also Ethiopia, with 4406 deaths and 282,498 infections, and Algeria, with 4441 deaths and 178,013 infected.
Regarding the Portuguese-speaking countries, Mozambique has 1538 deaths and 129,036 cases of infection accumulated since the beginning of the pandemic and Angola has 1032 deaths associated with the disease and 43,269 infected accumulated.
Cape Verde records 298 disease-related deaths and 33,941 infections, Equatorial Guinea 123 deaths and 8928 cases, Guinea-Bissau counts 79 deaths and 4679 infected, and São Tomé and Príncipe 37 deaths and 2463 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 made at least 4,247,424 deaths worldwide, among more than 200.1 million cases of infection with the new coronavirus, since the WHO detected the disease in China in late December 2019, according to AFP's tally based on official data.
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, South Africa, Brazil and Peru.
