According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), in the 55 member states of the organization there have been another 10,424 cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours.
The number of recovered is now 1,466,776, 9012 more than the day before.
The highest number of infections and deaths is recorded in southern Africa, which registers 807,783 infections and 20,884 deaths from covid-19. In this region, South Africa, the most affected country on the continent, accounts for a total of 726,823 cases of infection and 19,411 deaths.
North Africa, the second most affected area by the pandemic, has a total of 519,444 infected people and 14,397 deaths and in East Africa there are 215,876 infected and 3981 deaths.
In the West Africa region, the number of infections is 190,680, with 2771 deaths, and Central Africa has 60,724 cases and 1143 deaths, the same number reported on Saturday.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths, after South Africa, has 6278 deaths and 107,736 infected, followed by Morocco, which has 3762 deaths and 222,544 cases of infection.
Algeria follows with 58,272 infections and 1973 deaths.
Among the six countries most affected are Ethiopia, with 96,583 infections and 1478 deaths, and Nigeria, with 62,964 infections and 1146 deaths.
Among the African countries that have Portuguese as their official language, Angola leads in the number of deaths and Mozambique has the highest number of cases.
Angola has 286 deaths and 11,035 cases, followed by Cape Verde (95 deaths and 8848 cases), Mozambique (93 deaths and 12,988 cases), Equatorial Guinea (83 deaths and 5089 cases), Guinea-Bissau (41 deaths and 2413 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (16 deaths 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 February 28.
The covid-19 pandemic has already caused more than 1.2 million deaths and more than 46.4 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.
