Covid-19: Africa registers 8,511,777 cases and 218,950 deaths since the start of the pandemic

According to the African Union Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the southern African region is the most affected region on the continent, with 3,927,602 cases and 111,379 deaths associated with covid-19. In this region is the country most affected by the pandemic, South Africa, which accounts for 2,916,803 cases and 88,619 deaths.

North Africa, which succeeds Southern Africa in covid-19 numbers, has reached 2,922,735 infected people and 89,220 deaths associated with the disease.

East Africa has 1,052,286 infections and 22,984 deaths, and the West Africa region has 663,758 infections and 9988 deaths. Central Africa has the fewest cases of infection and deaths, 269,526 and 3,868, respectively.

Tunisia, the second African country with more fatalities after South Africa, registers 25,254 deaths and 712,982 infected, followed by Egypt, with 18,832 deaths and 333,840 cases, and Morocco, which accounts for the second highest number of infections in the entire continent, 946,766 cases, but fewer deaths than the two previous countries, 14,689 deaths associated with the disease.

Among the countries most affected are Ethiopia, with 6,494 deaths and 366,097 infections, Algeria, with 5,931 deaths and 206,754 people infected, and Kenya, with 5282 deaths associated with the disease and 253,409 infections.

In relation to Portuguese-speaking countries, Mozambique accounts for 1,932 deaths associated with the disease and 151,325 infected accumulated since the beginning of the pandemic, followed by Angola (1716 deaths and 64,533 cases), Cape Verde (349 deaths and 38,228 infections), Equatorial Guinea (167 deaths and 13,377 cases), Guinea-Bissau (142 deaths and 6144 infected) and São Tomé and Príncipe (56 deaths and 3715 infections).