According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), the African continent now has a total of 2,508,815 people infected since the beginning of the pandemic in the 55 member states of the African Union.
The number of people recovered in the last 24 hours was 4374 for a total of 2,098,710.
Southern Africa is, among the five African regions, the most affected, with 1,034,896 and 26,509 registered deaths. In this region, South Africa, the country most affected by covid-19 in the continent, counts this Monday a total of 921,922 infections and 24,691 deaths.
North Africa is the second most affected area by the pandemic, with 865,578 cases of infection and 22,516 deaths.
East Africa registers 309,707 infections and 5765 deaths, West Africa has 228,003 infections and 3061 deaths, while Central Africa registers 70,631 cases and 1248 deaths.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths, after South Africa, has 7098 deaths and 125,555 infected, followed by Morocco, which has 6957 deaths and 417,125 infected, more than three times the value of Egypt.
Among the six countries most affected are also Tunisia, with 4158 deaths and 120,687 infected, Algeria, with 2666 deaths and 95,203 cases, Ethiopia, with 1853 deaths and 119,951 infections, and Kenya, with 1639 deaths and 94,500 infected.
In Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola registered 387 deaths and 16,644 cases, followed by Mozambique (148 deaths and 17,558 cases), Cape Verde (111 deaths and 11,579 cases), Equatorial Guinea (85 deaths and 5231 cases), Guinea-Bissau (44 deaths and 2446 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (17 deaths and 1009 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 1,685,785 deaths from more than 76.2 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a review 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.
