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Covid-19: Africa with 273 more dead and 11,000 infected in the last 24 hours

Africa has registered 273 deaths due to covid-19 in the last 24 hours, increasing to 49,975 the total number of deaths due to the new coronavirus, which has already infected 2,080,923 people on the continent, according to official data.

: Nardus Engelbrecht/AP/SIPA
Nardus Engelbrecht/AP/SIPA  

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), the new coronavirus has infected a further 11,000 people in the past 24 hours in the 55 member states of the organization, and the number recovered in the same period was 10,402, for a total of 1,757,665.

The highest number of infections and deaths is registered in Southern Africa, with 864,083 infections and 22,586 deaths per covid-19. In this region, South Africa, the most affected country on the continent, accounts for a total of 769,759 cases of infection and 20,968 deaths.

North Africa is the second most affected area by the pandemic, with a total of 692,606 infected people and 18,367 deaths.

In East Africa there are 258,066 cases and 4996 deaths, in West Africa the number of infections is 201,925, with 2844 deaths, and Central Africa registers 64,243 cases and 1182 deaths.

Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths, after South Africa, has 6560 deaths and 113,381 infections, followed by Morocco, which has 5396 deaths and 327,528 infections.

Among the six countries most affected are Algeria, with 75,867 infections and 2276 deaths, Ethiopia, with 106,203 infections and 1651 deaths, and Nigeria, with 66,439 infections and 1168 deaths.

In relation to African countries that have Portuguese as their official language, Angola registers 337 deaths and 14,634 cases, followed by Mozambique (126 deaths and 15,109 cases), Cape Verde (104 deaths and 10,302 cases), Equatorial Guinea (85 deaths and 5,137 cases), Guinea-Bissau (43 deaths and 2422 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 1,388,590 deaths from more than 58.6 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.

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