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 6867, for a total of 1,363,106 since the beginning of the pandemic.
According to CDC Africa, Southern Africa continues to register the highest number of infections and deaths, with 19,884 deaths and 778,300 infected.
South Africa alone, the most affected country on the continent, has 705,254 cases and 18,492 deaths.
North Africa, the second most affected area by the pandemic, has 436,010 infected people and 12,546 deaths and East Africa now accounts for 195,381 cases of infection and 3664 deaths.
In the West African region, the number of infections is 185,326, with 2704 deaths, and in Central Africa there are 59,395 cases and 1127 deaths.
Egypt, which is the second African country with more deaths after South Africa, has 6130 deaths and 105,547 infected, and Morocco has 2976 deaths and 175,749 cases.
Algeria follows with 54,402 infections and 1856 deaths.
Among the six countries most affected are also Ethiopia, with 89,860 cases and 1365 deaths, and Nigeria, with 61,558 infected and 1125 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 248 deaths and 7829 cases, followed by Cape Verde (87 deaths and 7800 cases), Equatorial Guinea (83 deaths and 5074 cases), Mozambique (75 deaths and 11,080 cases), Guinea-Bissau (41 deaths and 2403 cases) and São Tomé e Príncipe (15 deaths and 932 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 1.1 million deaths and more than 40 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.
