According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), the African continent now has 2,697,083 infected. The number of recovered in the last 24 hours was 17,047, for a total of 2,256,070.
Southern Africa is the most affected of the five African regions, with 1,145,496 cases and 29,525 deaths. In this region, South Africa, the country most affected by covid-19 in the continent, counts this Wednesday a total of 1,021,451 infections and 27,568 deaths.
North Africa is the second most affected area by the pandemic, with 917,582 cases of infection and 23,930 deaths.
East Africa registers 319,689 infections and 5924 deaths, West Africa 240,696 infections and 3220 deaths, while Central Africa registers 73,620 cases and 1468 deaths.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths, after South Africa, has 7520 deaths and 135,233 infected, followed by Morocco, with 7314 deaths and 435,189 infected, a figure more than three times higher than Egypt.
Among the six countries most affected are also Tunisia, with 4570 deaths and 134,802 infected, Algeria, with 2745 deaths and 98,988 cases, Ethiopia, with 1913 deaths and 123,388 infections, and Kenya, with 1665 deaths and 96,139 infected.
With regard to Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola registered 403 deaths and 17,371 cases, followed by Mozambique (163 deaths and 18,372 cases), Cape Verde (112 deaths and 11,752 cases), Equatorial Guinea (86 deaths and 5264 cases), Guinea-Bissau (45 deaths and 2446 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (17 deaths and 1014 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 1,775,272 deaths from more than 81.5 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.
