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 8,483,555 and that of recovered is 7,881,834, plus 12,974 in the last 24 hours.
Southern Africa remains the most affected region on the continent, with 3,923,045 cases and 111,164 deaths associated with covid-19. In this region, is the country most affected by the pandemic, South Africa, which accounts for 2,920,581 cases and 89,049 deaths.
North Africa, which succeeds Southern Africa in the numbers of covid-19, this Thursday reached 2,585,034 infections by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and 71,109 deaths associated with covid-19.
East Africa has 1,048,210 infections and 22,828 deaths, and the West Africa region has 661,603 infections and 9934 deaths. Central Africa has the fewest cases of infection and deaths, 265,663 and 3768 respectively.
Tunisia, the second African country with more fatalities after South Africa, registers 26,221 deaths and 712,139 infected, followed by Egypt, with 18,428 deaths and 327,286 cases, and Morocco, with 945,201 infections, but fewer deaths than the two previous countries, 14,647 deaths associated with the disease.
Among the countries most affected are Ethiopia, with 6,412 deaths and 363,712 infections, Algeria, with 5904 deaths and 206,069 infected people, and Kenya, with 5266 deaths associated with the disease and 252,938 accumulated infections.
In relation to Portuguese-speaking countries, Mozambique accounts for 1929 deaths associated with the disease and 151,253 accumulated since the beginning of the pandemic, followed by Angola (1703 deaths and 64,126 cases), Cape Verde (349 deaths and 38,169 infections), Equatorial Guinea (163 deaths and 13,236 cases), Guinea-Bissau (141 dead and 6131 infected) and São Tomé and Príncipe (56 deaths and 3697 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 4,960,994 deaths worldwide, among more than 244.46 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.
