According to the African Union's Disease Control and Prevention Center (Africa CDC), in the past 24 hours the number of recovered people in the organization's 55 member states was 9040, for a total of 1,356,239 since the start of the pandemic. .
According to Africa CDC, Southern Africa continues to record the highest number of cases of infection and deaths, with 19,860 fatalities and 775,958 infected.
In South Africa alone, the continent's most affected country, 703,793 cases and 18,471 deaths are reported.
North Africa, the second most affected area by the pandemic, has 430,222 people infected and 12,410 killed and East Africa now accounts for 194,277 cases of infection and records 3642 fatalities.
In the West African region, the number of infections is 185,038, with 2701 fatalities, and in Central Africa there are 59,285 cases and 1125 deaths.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most fatalities, after South Africa, records 6120 deaths and 105,424 infected, and Morocco counts 2928 fatalities and 173,632 cases.
Algeria followed, with 54,203 infections and 1846 deaths.
Among the six most affected countries are also Ethiopia, with 89,137 cases and 1,352 fatalities, and Nigeria, with 61,440 infected and 1,125 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 247 deaths and 7622 cases, followed by Equatorial Guinea (83 dead and 5070 cases), Cape Verde (86 dead and 7752 cases), Mozambique (75 dead and 10,866 cases), Guinea-Bissau (41 dead and 2389 cases ) and São Tomé and Príncipe (15 dead and 932 cases).
