According to the African Union Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the total number of cases on the continent is 7,103,027 and the number of recovered cases is 6,206,068, up 32,570 in the last 24 hours.
Southern Africa remains the most affected region of the continent, with 3,98,578 cases and 93,538 deaths associated with covid-19. This region is home to the worst-hit country in the pandemic, South Africa, which has 2,546,762 cases and 75,201 deaths.
North Africa, which succeeds Southern Africa in covid-19 numbers, reached 2,095,261 infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and 57,261 deaths associated with the disease on Wednesday.
East Africa counts 843,124 infections and 17,608 deaths, and the West Africa region records 554,309 cases of infection and 7273 deaths. Central Africa has the fewest cases of infection and deaths, 211,755 and 3172 respectively.
Tunisia, the second African country with the most deaths after South Africa, records 21,089 deaths and 613,826 infected, followed by Egypt, with 16,588 deaths and 284,875 cases, and Morocco, which accounts for the second highest number of infections in the entire continent, 711,103 cases, but fewer deaths than the previous two countries, 10,509 deaths associated with the disease.
Among the most affected countries are also Algeria, with 4618 deaths and 183,347 people infected, Ethiopia, with 4440 deaths and 285,413 infections, and Kenya, with 4211 deaths associated with the disease and 213,756 infections.
Regarding the Portuguese-speaking countries, Mozambique accounts for 1641 deaths associated with the disease and 134,343 infected accumulated since the beginning of the pandemic, followed by Angola (1057 deaths and 43,890 cases), Cape Verde (298 deaths and 34,112 infections), Equatorial Guinea (123 deaths and 8951 cases), Guinea-Bissau (80 deaths and 4864 infected) and Sao Tome and Principe (37 deaths and 2476 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.
Covid-19 has caused at least 4,314,196 deaths worldwide, among more than 203.9 million infections by the new coronavirus recorded since the start of the pandemic, according to the most recent assessment by the Agence France-Presse.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
