According to the Centers 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 6997, for a total of 1,304,622 since the beginning of the pandemic.
According to CDC Africa, Southern Africa continues to register the highest number of infections and deaths, with 19,117 deaths and 760,757 infected.
South Africa alone, the most affected country on the continent, has registered 692,471 cases and 17,780 deaths.
North Africa, the second most affected area by the pandemic, has 391,655 infected people and 12,018 dead and East Africa now accounts for 184,963 cases of infection and registers 3503 fatalities.
In the West Africa region, the number of infections is 181,582, with 2662 deaths and in Central Africa there are 58,687 cases and 1096 deaths.
Egypt, which is the second African country with more deaths after South Africa, has 6052 deaths and 104,516 infections, and Morocco has 2605 deaths and 152,404 cases.
Algeria follows with 52,915 infections and 2095 deaths.
Among the six countries most affected are also Ethiopia, with 84,295 cases and 1287 deaths, and Nigeria, with 60,266 infected and 1115 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 registers 218 deaths and 6366 cases, followed by Equatorial Guinea (83 deaths and 5063 cases), Mozambique (71 deaths and 10,001 cases), Cape Verde (75 deaths and 7072 cases), Guinea-Bissau (40 deaths and 2385 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (15 deaths and 928 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 seventy-four thousand deaths and more than 37.2 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.
