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 7670, for a total of 1,380,448 since the beginning of the pandemic.
According to CDC Africa, Southern Africa continues to register the highest number of infections and deaths, with 21,153 deaths and 782,510 infected.
In South Africa alone, the most affected country on the continent, there are 708,359 cases and 18,741 deaths.
North Africa, the second most affected area by the pandemic, has 448,481 people infected and 12,795 dead, and East Africa now has 198,046 cases of infection and 3,703 deaths.
In the West Africa region, the number of infections is 186,032, with 2711 deaths, and in Central Africa there are 59,523 cases and 1131 deaths.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths after South Africa, has 6155 deaths and 105,883 infections, and Morocco has 3097 deaths and 182,580 infections.
Algeria follows with 54,839 infections and 1873 deaths.
Among the six countries most affected are Ethiopia, with 91,118 infections and 1384 deaths, and Nigeria, with 61,667 infections and 1125 deaths, the same number as 24 hours ago.
Among the African countries that have Portuguese as their official language, Angola leads in number of deaths and Mozambique in number of cases.
Angola has 255 deaths and 8338 cases, followed by Cape Verde (90 deaths and 8033 cases), Equatorial Guinea (83 deaths and 5074 cases), Mozambique (79 deaths and 11,331 cases), Guinea-Bissau (41 deaths and 2403 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (15 deaths and 935 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 40.8 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.
