According to the African Union Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the cumulative total of cases of infection on the continent since the start of the pandemic is now 8,371,723 and that of recovered is 7,720,490, plus 11,030 in the last 24 hours.
Southern Africa remains the most affected region on the continent, with 3,899,999 cases and 109,973 deaths associated with covid-19. This region is home to the country most affected by the pandemic, South Africa, which accounts for 2,909,757 cases and 88,104 deaths.
North Africa, which succeeds Southern Africa in the numbers of covid-19, this Friday reached 2,543,973 infections by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and 68,416 deaths associated with covid-19.
East Africa has 1,024,691 infections and 21,871 deaths, and the West Africa region has 652,458 infections and 9664 deaths. Central Africa has the fewest cases of infection and deaths, 250,602 and 3501 respectively.
Tunisia, the second African country with more fatalities after South Africa, registers 24,987 deaths and 709,222 infected, followed by Egypt, with 17,584 deaths and 309,934 cases, and Morocco, with 937,631 infections, but fewer deaths than the two previous countries, 14,413 deaths associated with the disease.
Among the countries most affected are also Algeria, with 5842 deaths and 204,276 people infected, Ethiopia, with 5888 fatalities and 352,504 infections, and Kenya, with 5178 deaths associated with the disease and 250,728 accumulated infections.
In relation to Portuguese-speaking countries, Mozambique accounts for 1919 deaths associated with the disease and 150,899 infected accumulated since the beginning of the pandemic, followed by Angola (1603 deaths and 60,803 cases), Cape Verde (346 deaths and 37,808 infections), Equatorial Guinea (154 deaths and 12,657 cases), Guinea-Bissau (135 deaths and 6115 infected) and São Tomé and Príncipe (55 deaths and 3584 infections).
The first covid-19 case in Africa appeared in Egypt on February 14, 2020, and Nigeria was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to report cases of infection, on February 28th.
Covid-19 has caused at least 4,822,267 deaths worldwide, among more than 236.23 million infections by the new coronavirus registered since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the most recent report by the Agence France-Presse.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
