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Africa surpasses the barrier of two million infected with covid-19

The African continent has surpassed the barrier of two million infected with the new coronavirus, with covid-19 causing 48,408 deaths, reported the African Union's Disease Control and Prevention Center (CDC Africa).

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Since the first continental infection was detected on February 14 in Egypt, the 55 member states of the African Union have accumulated 2,013,388 cases. Of these, 1,703,498 patients recovered.

Africa accounts for just under 4 percent of infections reported worldwide, a number that many experts believe does not represent the real impact of the pandemic on the continent, where only more than 19 million tests have been done for a global population of about 1.3 billion people.

However, Africa, at least according to official data, has so far escaped the same catastrophic effect of the new coronavirus in other areas of the world, such as Europe or the American continent.

This is a circumstance that many experts attribute to factors such as its young population, experience in previous epidemics (Ebola and malaria, for example), its lower interconnection and the possibility of enjoying some immunity to other strains of coronavirus.

The largest number of cases of infection and deaths are recorded in Southern Africa, with 847,992 infections and 22,139 deaths from covid-19. In this region, South Africa, the continent's most affected country, accounts for a total of 757,144 cases of infection and 20,566 deaths.

North Africa is the second most affected area by the pandemic, with a total of 656,514 people infected and 17,459 dead.

In East Africa, there are 246,732 cases and 4808 fatalities, in West Africa, the number of infections is 199,484, with 2830 deaths, and Central Africa has 62,666 cases and 1172 deaths.

Egypt, which is the second African country with the most fatalities, after South Africa, registers 6495 deaths and 111,613 infected, followed by Morocco, which counts 5013 fatalities and 306,995 cases of infection.

Among the six most affected countries are also Algeria, which passed the 70,000 cases (70,629) and 2188 deaths, Ethiopia, which accounts for 103,928 cases of infection and 1601 fatalities, and Nigeria, with 65,693 infected and 1,164 dead.

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 332 deaths and 13,922 cases, followed by Mozambique (119 deaths and 14,629 cases), Cape Verde (104 deaths and 10,000 cases), Equatorial Guinea (85 deaths and 5121 cases), Guinea-Bissau (43 deaths and 2421 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (16 dead and 967 cases).

The CDC of Africa has been warning in recent weeks about the consequences of a second wave of the disease.

A second wave would also have a devastating economic impact in Africa, where the growth of infections is accompanied by the relaxation of containment measures in many countries, whose economies have collapsed due to the coronavirus.

The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,339,130 ​​deaths resulting from more than 55.6 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report made by the news agency France-Presse (AFP).

The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.

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