According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), in the last 24 hours the number of recovered in the 55 member states of the organization was 6190, this total has risen to 1,256,284.
According to Africa CDC, Southern Africa continues to register the highest number of infections and deaths, with 44 more deaths in the last 24 hours, rising to 18,308 deaths, and the total number of infected is now 747,754.
In South Africa alone, the most affected country on the continent, 682,215 cases and 17,016 deaths have been recorded.
North Africa, the second most affected area by the pandemic, has 357,176 people infected and 11,497 dead and in West Africa the number of infections is 178,853, with 2639 deaths.
The East Africa region now accounts for 176,756 cases and registers 3393 fatalities and in Central Africa 58,123 cases and 1084 deaths are registered.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths after South Africa, has 5990 deaths and 103 781 infections, and Morocco has 2369 deaths and 134 695 cases.
Algeria follows, with 52,113 recorded infections and 2062 fatalities.
Among the six countries most affected are Ethiopia, with 79,437 cases and 1230 deaths, and Nigeria, with 59,465 infected and 1113 dead.
In relation to the Portuguese-speaking African countries, Angola leads in number of deaths and Mozambique in number of cases.
Angola has 199 deaths and 5530 cases, followed by Equatorial Guinea (83 deaths and 5052 cases), Mozambique (66 deaths and 9296 cases), Cape Verde (68 deaths and 6433 cases), Guinea-Bissau (39 deaths and 2385 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (15 deaths and 913 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 more than one million thirty thousand deaths and more than 35.2 million cases of infection worldwide, 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.
