According to the African Union's Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), in the past 24 hours the number of recovered people in the organization's 55 member states was 5657, for a total of 1,279,120.
According to Africa CDC, Southern Africa continues to record the highest number of cases of infection and deaths, with 18,727 fatalities, and 753,890 infected.
In South Africa alone, the continent's most affected country, there are 686,891 cases and 17,408 deaths.
North Africa, the second most affected area by the pandemic, has 373,573 people infected and 11,790 killed, and in West Africa the number of infections is 180,163, with 2651 fatalities.
The East Africa region now accounts for 180,495 cases and records 3449 fatalities and in Central Africa there are 58,570 cases and 1093 deaths.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most fatalities, after South Africa, has 6017 deaths and 104,156 infected, and Morocco counts 2486 fatalities and 142,953 cases.
Algeria followed, with 52,501 cases of infection and 2077 fatalities.
Among the six most affected countries are also Ethiopia, with 81,797 cases and 1,262 fatalities, and Nigeria, with 59,841 infected and 1,113 dead.
Among African countries that have Portuguese as their official language, Angola leads in number of deaths and Mozambique in number of cases.
Angola records 208 deaths and 5958 cases, followed by Equatorial Guinea (83 deaths and 5062 cases), Mozambique (68 deaths and 9639 cases), Cape Verde (71 deaths and 6624 cases), Guinea-Bissau (39 deaths and 2385 cases) ) and São Tomé and Príncipe (15 dead and 921 cases).
