According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), in the last 24 hours there have been 8297 more cases of infection in the 55 member states of the organization and 10,489 more people have been considered cured of the disease, this Thursday the total of 1,127,034 recovered.
The highest number of cases and deaths continues to occur in southern Africa, with 709,211 infections and 16,868 deaths. South Africa alone, the most affected country on the continent, accounts for 653,444 cases and 15,705 deaths.
North Africa, the second most affected area by the pandemic, now has 282,865 people infected and 9713 dead and in West Africa the number of infections now exceeds 170,000 (170,053) and the number of deaths has risen to 2547.
The East Africa region has 155,277 cases and 3058 deaths and in Central Africa 56,580 cases and 1065 deaths are counted, the same number compared to Wednesday.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths, after South Africa, has 5696 deaths and 101,500 infected, and Morocco has 16,486 deaths and 92,016 cases.
Algeria has 1645 dead and 48,969 cases.
In the six countries most affected are also Nigeria, with 56,604 infected and 1091 dead, and Ethiopia, with 66,442 infected and 1045 dead.
Among the African countries that have Portuguese as their official language, Angola leads in number of deaths and Mozambique in number of cases.
Angola registers 143 deaths and 3675 cases, followed by Equatorial Guinea (83 deaths and 5002 cases, according to an update of data made this Thursday by the national authorities), Cape Verde (47 deaths and 4978 cases), Mozambique (39 deaths and 5994 cases), Guinea-Bissau (39 deaths and 2303 cases), and São Tomé e Príncipe (15 deaths and 906 cases).
The first case of covid-19 in Africa emerged in Egypt on February 14 and Nigeria was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to register cases of infection on February 28.
The covid-19 pandemic has already caused at least 936,095 deaths and more than 29.6 million cases of infection in 196 countries and territories, according to a balance sheet made by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected at the end of December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
