According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), the African continent now has 2,727,345 infected.
The number of recovered in the last 24 hours was 23,327 for a total of 2,279,397
Southern Africa is the most affected of the five African regions, with 1,164,832 cases and 30,007 deaths.
In this region, South Africa, the country most affected by covid-19 in the continent, counts this Thursday a total of 1,039,161 infections and 28,033 deaths.
North Africa is the second most affected area by the pandemic, with 924,660 cases of infection and 24,103 deaths.
East Africa registers 321,385 infections and 5944 deaths, West Africa 242,575 infections and 3238 deaths, while Central Africa registers 73,893 cases and 1468 deaths.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths, after South Africa, has 7576 deaths and 136,644 infected, followed by Morocco with 7355 deaths and 437,332 infected.
Among the six countries most affected are also Tunisia, with 4620 deaths and 137,216 infected, Algeria, with 2751 deaths and 99,311 cases, Ethiopia, with 1918 deaths and 123,856 infections, and Kenya, with 1667 deaths and 96,251 infected.
In relation to Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola registered 405 deaths and 17,433 cases, followed by Mozambique (165 deaths and 18,485 cases), Cape Verde (112 deaths and 11,793 cases), Equatorial Guinea (86 deaths and 5264 cases), Guinea-Bissau (45 deaths and 2447 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 1,791,033 deaths from more than 81.9 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.
