According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), in the 55 member states of the organization, in the last 24 hours there were 11,459 more cases of covid-19 in this region.
The number of recovered is now 1,438,841, plus 8283.
Southern Africa continues to record the highest number of cases of infection and deaths, having passed the barrier of 800,000 cases and now reaching 801,143 infections and 20,621 deaths.
In this region, only South Africa, the continent's most affected country, accounts for 721,770 cases and 19,164 deaths.
North Africa, the second most affected area by the pandemic, has 498,241 people infected and 13,917 killed and in East Africa there are 210,481 infected and 3904 fatalities.
In the West African region, the number of infections is 189,713, with 2758 fatalities, and Central Africa has 60,216 cases and 1136 deaths.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most fatalities, after South Africa, registers 6247 dead and 107,209 infected, and Morocco counts 3,572 fatalities and 212,038 cases of infection.
Algeria followed, with 57,332 infections and 1949 deaths.
Among the six most affected countries are also Ethiopia, which has 95,301 cases of infection and 1,457 fatalities, and Nigeria, with 62,521 infected and 1141 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 275 deaths and 10,269 cases, followed by Cape Verde (95 deaths and 8603 cases), Mozambique (91 deaths and 12,525 cases), Equatorial Guinea (83 deaths and 5083 cases), Guinea-Bissau (41 deaths and 2413 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (16 dead and 944 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 the 28th of the same month.
