According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), the new coronavirus has infected a further 12,922 people in the past 24 hours in the 55 member states of the organization, and the number recovered in the same period was 9986, for a total of 1,747,263.
The highest number of infections and deaths is registered in Southern Africa, with 861,129 infections and 22,511 deaths per covid-19. In this region, South Africa, the most affected country on the continent, accounts for a total of 767,679 cases of infection and 20,903 deaths.
North Africa is the second most affected area by the pandemic, with a total of 687,522 infected people and 18,202 deaths.
In East Africa, there are 255,819 cases and 4966 deaths, in West Africa, the number of infections is 201,599, with 2842 deaths, and Central Africa registers 63,854 cases and 1181 deaths.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths, after South Africa, has 6548 dead and 113,027 infected, followed by Morocco, which has 5316 deaths and 324,941 cases of infection.
Among the six countries most affected are Algeria, with 74,862 infections and 2257 deaths, Ethiopia, with 105,785 infections and 1647 deaths, and Nigeria, with 66,383 infections and 1167 deaths.
In relation to African countries that have Portuguese as their official language, Angola registers 337 deaths and 14,493 cases, followed by Mozambique (124 deaths and 15,037 cases), Cape Verde (104 deaths and 10,276 cases), Equatorial Guinea (85 deaths and 5130 cases), Guinea-Bissau (43 deaths and 2421 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (17 deaths and 974 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 1,381,915 deaths from more than 58.1 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.
