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 7072, for a total of 1,325,204 since the beginning of the pandemic.
According to CDC Africa, Southern Africa continues to register the highest number of infections and deaths, with 19,514 deaths and 766,284 infected.
In South Africa alone, the most affected country on the continent, 696,414 cases and 18,151 deaths are registered.
North Africa, the second most affected area by the pandemic, has 407,036 infected people and 12,261 deaths and East Africa now accounts for 188,501 cases of infection and 3563 deaths.
In the West Africa region, the number of infections is 183,050, with 2681 deaths and in Central Africa there are 59,111 cases and 1103 deaths.
Egypt, which is the second African country with more deaths after South Africa, has 6077 deaths and 104,915 infected, and Morocco has 2726 deaths and 160,333 cases.
Algeria follows with 53,584 infections and 2112 deaths.
Among the six countries most affected are also Ethiopia, with 86,430 cases and 1312 deaths, and Nigeria, with 60,834 infected and 1116 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 227 deaths and 6846 cases, followed by Equatorial Guinea (83 deaths and 5068 cases), Cape Verde (79 deaths and 7371 cases), Mozambique (73 deaths and 10,392 cases), Guinea-Bissau (41 deaths and 2389 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 eighty-seven thousand deaths and more than 38.2 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.
