According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), the number of deaths in the 55 member states of the organization due to the new coronavirus reached 40,690. Those recovered are now 1,380,448, plus 6574.
Southern Africa continues to register the highest number of infections and deaths, with 785,582 infected and 20,262 dead. In this region, South Africa alone, the most affected country on the continent, accounts for 710,515 cases and 18,843 deaths.
North Africa, the second most affected area by the pandemic, has 454,060 infected people and 12,851 dead and East Africa now accounts for 199,841 cases of infection and 3728 fatalities.
In the West Africa region, the number of infections is 186,557, with 2717 deaths, and in Central Africa there are 59,549 cases and 1132 deaths.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths after South Africa, has 6166 deaths and 106,060 infections, and Morocco has 3132 deaths and 186,731 infections.
Algeria follows with 55,091 infections and 1880 deaths.
Among the six countries most affected are also Ethiopia, with 91,693 infections and 1,396 deaths, and Nigeria, with 61,805 infections and 1,227 deaths.
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 260 deaths and 8582 cases, followed by Cape Verde (91 deaths and 8122 cases), Equatorial Guinea (83 deaths and 5074 cases), Mozambique (81 deaths and 11,559 cases), Guinea-Bissau (41 deaths and 2403 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (15 deaths and 935 cases), the latter two countries with the same indicators as the day before.
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 41.3 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 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
