According to the African Union Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the total number of cases on the continent is 7,844,232 and the number of recovered cases is 7,015,476, up 32,321 in the last 24 hours.
Southern Africa remains the most affected region of the continent, with 3,726,513 cases and 103,466 deaths associated with covid-19. This region is home to the worst-hit country in the pandemic, South Africa, which has 2,796,405 cases and 82,914 deaths.
North Africa, which succeeds Southern Africa in covid-19 figures, this Friday reached 2,373,892 infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and 63,636 deaths associated with the disease.
East Africa counts 915,379 infections and 18,927 deaths, and the West Africa region records 608,245 cases of infection and 8743 deaths. Central Africa has the fewest cases of infection and deaths, 220,203 and 3214 respectively.
Tunisia, the second African country with the most deaths after South Africa, has 23,647 deaths and 668,051 infected, followed by Egypt, with 16,755 deaths and 289,035 cases, and Morocco, which has the second highest number of infections in the entire continent, 872,351 cases, but fewer deaths than the previous two countries, 12,819 deaths associated with the disease.
Among the most affected countries are also Algeria, with 5339 deaths and 196,915 people infected, Kenya, with 4746 deaths associated with the disease and 237,851 infections, and Ethiopia, with 4711 deaths and 310,994 infections.
Regarding the Portuguese-speaking countries, Mozambique accounts for 1871 deaths associated with the disease and 147,066 infected accumulated since the beginning of the pandemic, followed by Angola (1235 deaths and 48,004 cases), Cape Verde (314 deaths and 35,624 infections), Equatorial Guinea (126 deaths and 9477 cases), Guinea-Bissau (120 deaths and 5854 infected) and Sao Tome and Principe (37 deaths and 2627 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 4,529,715 deaths worldwide, among more than 218.3 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.
