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Number of deaths in Africa exceeds 34,000 in 1,412,310 cases of covid-19

The number of deaths in Africa due to covid-19 has exceeded the 34,000 barrier in the last 24 hours, with a further 121 deaths, a total of 1,412,310 cases in the region, according to official data.

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), in the last 24 hours there have been more than 4630 cases of infection in the 55 member states of the organization.

Until this Tuesday 34,072 people died in the region due to covid-19, with the recovered reaching 1,158,162, plus 4195 in the last 24 hours.

The highest number of cases of infection and deaths continues to occur in southern Africa: 720,378 and 17,189, respectively. In this region, South Africa alone, which is the most affected country on the continent, now accounts for 661,936 cases and 15,992 deaths.

North Africa, the second most affected area by the pandemic, has 301,375 infected people and 10,077 dead and in West Africa the number of infections is 172,594, with 2580 dead.

The East African region has exceeded the 160,000 infection barrier in the last 24 hours, now accounting for 160,977 cases and registering 3155 fatalities.

In Central Africa 56,986 cases and 1071 deaths are recorded, the same as the previous day.

Egypt, which is the second African country with more deaths, after South Africa, registers 5787 deaths and 102,141 infected and Morocco counts 1830 deaths and 101,743 cases, the same data indicated the day before.

Algeria appears soon after, exceeding in the last 24 hours the barrier of 50,000 cases (50,026), with 1679 fatalities.

In the six countries most affected are also Nigeria, with 57,437 infected and 1100 dead, and Ethiopia, with 69,702 infected and 1108 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 154 deaths and 4117 cases, followed by Equatorial Guinea (83 dead and 5018 infected), Cape Verde (52 dead and 5281 cases) and Mozambique (44 deaths and 6912 infected).

Guinea-Bissau keeps the 39 dead, bringing the number of infected to 2324, while São Tomé and Príncipe keeps the number of 15 deaths and 908 infected.

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 961,531 deaths and more than 31.1 million cases of infection in 196 countries and territories, according to a balance sheet made by the France-Presse news agency (AFP).

The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected at the end of December in Wuhan, a city in central China.

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