According to the African Union Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the southern African region is the most affected region on the continent, with 3,852,645 cases and 107,898 deaths associated with covid-19. This region is home to the country most affected by the pandemic, South Africa, which accounts for 2,886,331 cases and 86,376 deaths.
North Africa, which succeeds Southern Africa in the numbers of covid-19, reached this Wednesday 2,494,578 infected and 66,698 deaths associated with the disease.
East Africa has 961,927 infections and 19,938 deaths, and the West Africa region has 638,372 infections and 9355 deaths. Central Africa has the fewest cases of infection and deaths, 231,844 and 3281 respectively.
Tunisia, the second African country with more fatalities after South Africa, registers 24,553 deaths and 700,807 infected, followed by Egypt, with 17,016 deaths and 298,296 cases of infection, and Morocco, which accounts for the second highest number of infections across the continent, 922,222 cases, but fewer deaths than the two previous countries, 14,009 deaths associated with the disease.
Among the countries most affected are also Algeria, with 5725 deaths and 201,948 infected people, Ethiopia, with 5207 deaths and 335,273 infections, and Kenya, with 5008 deaths associated with the disease and 246,956 infections.
In relation to Portuguese-speaking countries, Mozambique accounts for 1906 deaths associated with the disease and 150,280 infected accumulated since the beginning of the pandemic, followed by Angola (1414 deaths and 52,968 cases), Cape Verde (332 deaths and 37,179 infections), Equatorial Guinea (140 deaths and 11,544 cases), Guinea-Bissau (133 deaths and 6087 infected) and São Tomé and Príncipe (46 deaths and 3115 infections).
The first covid-19 case in Africa appeared in Egypt on February 14, 2020, and Nigeria was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to report cases of infection, on February 28th.
Covid-19 has caused at least 4,705,691 deaths worldwide, out of more than 229.48 million infections with the new coronavirus recorded since the start of the pandemic, according to the latest report by the Agence France-Presse.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
