According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), the African continent now has 2,570,886 infected and the number recovered in the last 24 hours was 12,604 for a total of 2,157,742.
Southern Africa is the most affected of the five African regions, with 1,071,114 cases and 27,526 deaths. In this region, South Africa, the country most affected by covid-19 in the continent, counts this Thursday a total of 954,258 infections and 25,657 deaths.
North Africa is the second most affected area by the pandemic, with 882,056 cases of infection and 22,959 deaths.
East Africa registers 313,874 infections and 5845 deaths, West Africa 232,389 infections and 3105 deaths, while Central Africa registers 71,453 cases and 1447 deaths.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths, after South Africa, registers 7209 deaths and 127,972 infected, followed by Morocco, with 7086 deaths and 423,214 infected, a figure more than three times higher than Egypt.
Among the six countries most affected are also Tunisia, with 4275 deaths and 125,000 infected, Algeria, with 2696 deaths and 96,549 cases, Ethiopia, with 1870 deaths and 120,989 infections, and Kenya, with 1648 deaths and 95,195 infected.
In Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola registered 394 deaths and 16,931 cases, followed by Mozambique (153 deaths and 17,956 cases), Cape Verde (112 deaths and 11,669 cases), Equatorial Guinea (85 deaths and 5,236 cases), Guinea-Bissau (45 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 has caused at least 1,718,209 deaths from more than 77.9 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.
