According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), 7216 were recovered in the 55 member states of the organization, for a total of 1,430,558.
Southern Africa continues to register the highest number of infections and deaths, with 798,239 infected and 20,564 dead. In this region, South Africa alone, the most affected country on the continent, accounts for 719,714 cases and 19,111 deaths.
North Africa, the second most affected area by the pandemic, has 492,634 people infected and 13,822 dead and in East Africa there are 208,773 infected and 3882 dead.
In the West Africa region, the number of infections is 188,581, with 2749 deaths, and Central Africa has 60,108 cases and 1134 deaths, the same number as 48 hours ago.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths after South Africa, has 6,234 deaths and 107,030 infections, and Morocco has 3506 deaths and 207,718 infections.
Algeria follows with 57,026 infections and 1941 deaths.
Among the six countries most affected are Ethiopia, with 94,820 infections and 1451 deaths, and Nigeria, with 62,371 infections and 1139 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 registers 275 deaths and 10,074 cases, followed by Cape Verde (94 deaths and 8548 cases), Mozambique (91 deaths and 12,415 cases), Equatorial Guinea (83 deaths and 5083 cases), Guinea-Bissau (41 deaths and 2413 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (15 deaths and 941 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 44 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.
