According to the African Union Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) bulletin released Monday, the cumulative total of cases is 7,741,917, while that of recovered cases is 6,878,449, up 23,723 in the last 24 hours.
Southern Africa remains the most affected region, with a cumulative 3,684,527 infected and 101,874 deaths associated with the disease since the start of the pandemic on the continent.
In this region, South Africa alone, the country most affected by the pandemic on the African continent, already has 2,764,931 people infected and 81,595 deaths from the disease.
North Africa, with 2,337,766 cases and 62,691 deaths, is the second most affected region on the continent, with a total of 55 countries.
East Africa records a total of 904,152 infections and 18,768 deaths, and the West African region counts 597,530 cases and 8289 deaths.
Central Africa remains the region of the continent with the fewest cases and deaths: 217,942 infected and 3201 deaths.
After South Africa, the most affected country is Tunisia, with 23,369 deaths and 660,587 infected, followed by Egypt, with 16,721 deaths and 287,899 cases.
Morocco, with 12,437 deaths and 853,373 cases of infection, and Algeria, with 5209 deaths and 195,162 infected are other countries most affected by the disease.
Regarding the Portuguese-speaking countries, Mozambique remains the most affected by covid-19, with 1851 deaths and 145,863 cases, followed by Angola, with 1201 deaths and a total of 47,168 infected people.
Cape Verde registers 308 deaths associated with the disease and 35,147 positive cases, Equatorial Guinea 124 deaths and 9326 cases, Guinea-Bissau registers a total of 117 deaths and 6608 infected. São Tomé and Príncipe, meanwhile, has remained at 37 deaths and has recorded 2579 infections in the cumulative total since the start of the pandemic.
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 4,492,854 deaths worldwide, among more than 215.87 million infections by the new coronavirus recorded since the pandemic began, according to the most recent assessment by the France-Presse 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 United Kingdom, India, South Africa, Brazil or Peru.
