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Covid-19: Africa surpasses 200,000 deaths and adds 16,913 more infections in the last 24 hours

The African continent has recorded 545 covid-19-associated deaths in the last 24 hours, surpassing 200,000 (200,045) since the pandemic began, and 16,913 more new infections, according to the latest official data.

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According to the African Union Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the total number of cases on the continent is 7,926,999 and the number of recovered cases is 7,130,039, a figure that corrects downward by 13,283 cases from the organization's record 24 hours ago.

Southern Africa is the most affected region of the continent, with 3,761,071 cases and 104,387 deaths associated with covid-19. This region is home to the country worst hit by the pandemic, South Africa, which has 2,824,063 cases and 83,617 deaths.

North Africa, which succeeds Southern Africa in the covid-19 figures, has reached 2,402,702 infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and 64,384 deaths associated with the disease as of Tuesday.

East Africa counts 925,799 infections and 19,093 deaths, and the West Africa region records 615,413 cases of infection and 8962 deaths. Central Africa has the fewest cases of infection and deaths, 222,014 and 3219 respectively.

Tunisia, the second African country with the most deaths after South Africa, records 23,846 deaths and 675,191 infected, followed by Egypt, with 16,801 deaths and 290,395 cases of infection, and Morocco, which has the second highest number of infections in the entire continent, 886,008 cases, but fewer deaths than the previous two countries, 13,145 deaths associated with the disease.

Among the most affected countries are also Algeria, with 5445 deaths and 198,313 people infected, Kenya, with 4795 deaths associated with the disease and 240,430 infections, and Ethiopia, with 4785 deaths and 316,174 infections.

Regarding the Portuguese-speaking countries, Mozambique accounts for 1881 deaths associated with the disease and 148,054 infected accumulated since the beginning of the pandemic, followed by Angola (1282 deaths and 48,790 cases), Cape Verde (316 deaths and 36,012 infections), Equatorial Guinea (129 deaths and 9939 cases), Guinea-Bissau (121 deaths and 5902 infected) and Sao Tome and Principe (37 deaths and 2683 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 4,565,622 deaths worldwide, among more than 220.65 million infections by the new coronavirus recorded since the start of the pandemic, according to the most recent assessment by Agence France-Presse.

The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.

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