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 6064, this total has risen to 1,262,348.
According to CDC Africa, Southern Africa continues to register the highest number of infections and deaths, with 18,400 deaths, and 749,158 infected.
In South Africa alone, the most affected country on the continent, 683,242 cases and 17,103 deaths are recorded.
North Africa, the second most affected area by the pandemic, has 361,833 people infected and 11,558 dead, and in West Africa the number of infections is 179,200, with 2644 deaths.
The East Africa region now accounts for 177,640 cases and 3412 deaths, and in Central Africa there are 58,169 cases and 1084 deaths.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths after South Africa, has 6001 deaths and 103,902 infections, and Morocco has 2410 deaths and 137,248 cases.
Algeria follows with 52,242 cases of infection and 2067 fatalities.
Among the six countries most affected are also Ethiopia, with 80,003 cases and 1238 deaths, and Nigeria, with 59,583 infected and 1113 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 has 201 deaths and 5725 cases, followed by Equatorial Guinea (83 deaths and 5052 cases), Cape Verde (69 deaths and 6518 cases), Mozambique (67 deaths and 9398 cases), Guinea-Bissau (39 deaths and 2385 cases) and São Tomé e Príncipe (15 deaths and 914 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 forty-five thousand deaths and more than 35.5 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.
