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Covid-19: Africa with an additional 271 dead and 13,463 infected in the last 24 hours

The African continent has recorded another 271 deaths due to covid-19 in the last 24 hours, with a total of 47,375 deaths, and now accounts for 1,977,165 people infected with the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus, according to official data.

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According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), the new coronavirus has infected in the last 24 hours 13,463 more people in the 55 member states of the organization, and the number of recovered has increased in the same period to 1,664,801, plus 7659.

The highest number of infections and deaths is registered in Southern Africa, with 840,319 infections and 21,799 deaths per covid-19. In this region, South Africa, the most affected country on the continent, accounts for a total of 751,024 cases of infection and 20,241 deaths.

North Africa is the second most affected area by the pandemic, with a total of 635,315 infected people and 16,929 deaths.

In East Africa there are 241,452 cases and 4658 deaths, in West Africa the number of infections is 197,827 with 2821 deaths, and Central Africa registers 62,252 cases and 1168 deaths.

Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths, after South Africa, has 6453 deaths and 110,767 infections, followed by Morocco, which has 4779 deaths and 293,177 infections.

Among the six countries most affected are Algeria, with 69,383 infections and 2168 deaths, Ethiopia, with 102,720 infections and 1569 deaths, and Nigeria, with 65,148 infections and 1163 deaths.

In relation to African countries that have Portuguese as their official language, Angola has the highest number of deaths and Mozambique the highest number of cases.

Angola registers 322 deaths and 13,451 cases, followed by Mozambique (113 deaths and 14,448 cases), Cape Verde (103 deaths and 9822 cases), Equatorial Guinea (85 deaths and 5104 cases), Guinea-Bissau (43 deaths and 2419 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (16 deaths and 963 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 caused at least 1,313,471 deaths as a result of more than 54 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, China.

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