Covid-19: Africa with 615 more deaths and 29,569 infected in the last 24 hours

According to the African Union Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the total number of cases on the continent is 7,074,924 and the number recovered is 6,173,498, plus 27,668 in the last 24 hours.

Southern Africa remains the most affected region on the continent, with 3,387,890 cases and 93,239 deaths associated with covid-19. In this region is the country most affected by the pandemic, South Africa, which accounts for 2,540,222 cases and 75,012 deaths.

North Africa, which succeeds southern Africa in covid-19 numbers, has reached 2,083,862 infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and 57,008 deaths associated with the disease.

East Africa has 840,010 infections and 17,524 deaths, and the West Africa region has 551,870 cases of infection and 7220 deaths. Central Africa has the fewest cases of infection and deaths, 211,292 and 3169 respectively.

Tunisia, the second African country with the most fatalities after South Africa, registers 21,025 deaths and 615,776 infected, followed by Egypt, with 16,582 deaths and 284,789 cases, and Morocco, which accounts for the second highest number of infections in continent-wide, 701,325 cases, but fewer deaths than the two previous countries, 10,404 deaths associated with the disease.

Among the countries most affected are also Algeria, with 4578 deaths and 182,368 infected people, Ethiopia, with 4,430 deaths and 284,531 infections, and Kenya, with 4179 deaths associated with the disease and 212,573 infections.

In relation to Portuguese-speaking countries, Mozambique accounts for 1628 deaths associated with the disease and 133,177 infected accumulated since the beginning of the pandemic, followed by Angola (1053 deaths and 47,743 cases), Cape Verde (298 deaths and 34,078 infections), Equatorial Guinea (123 deaths and 8951 cases), Guinea-Bissau (79 deaths and 4788 infected) and São Tomé and Príncipe (37 deaths and 2475 infections).