According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), the number of recovered in the same period was 10,410, for a total of 1,781,744 out of the 55 members of the organization.
The highest number of infections and deaths was recorded in southern Africa, with 870,650 cases and 22,825 deaths. In this region, South Africa, the most affected country on the continent, accounts for a total of 775,502 cases of infection and 21,201 deaths.
With 708,018 infected people and 18,716 fatalities, North Africa is the second most affected area by the pandemic.
East Africa accounts for 260,623 cases and 5053 deaths, in West Africa the number of infections is 203,234, with 2850 deaths, while Central Africa registers 64,406 cases and 1184 deaths, the same number as on Wednesday.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths, after South Africa, has 6585 dead and 114,107 infected, followed by Morocco, which has 5539 deaths and 333,506 cases of infection.
Among the six countries most affected are Algeria, with 78,025 infections and 2311 deaths, Ethiopia, with 107,109 infections and 1664 deaths, and Nigeria, with 66,805 infections and 1169 deaths.
In Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola registered 340 deaths and 14,821 cases, followed by Mozambique (128 deaths and 15,302 cases), Cape Verde (104 deaths and 10,400 cases), Equatorial Guinea (85 deaths and 5,146 cases), Guinea-Bissau (43 deaths and 2422 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (17 deaths and 981 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 1,415,258 deaths as a result of more than 60 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.
