Southern Africa is, among the five African regions, the most affected and the country most affected by the disease in South Africa, which accounts for a total of 994,911 infections and 26,521 deaths.
Africa recorded an additional 412 deaths due to Covid-19, for a total of 62,366, and 21,026 new cases in the last 24 hours, according to official data.
According to the African Union’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the African continent now has 2,644,112 infected and the number of recovered in the last 24 hours was 18,590, for a total of 2,212,975.
Southern Africa is, among the five African regions, the most affected, with 1,115,311 cases and 28,429 deaths. In this region, South Africa, the country hardest hit by Covid-19 on the continent, accounts for a total of 994,911 infections and 26,521 deaths.
North Africa is the second most affected area by the pandemic, with 901,164 cases of infection and 23,443 fatalities.
East Africa has 317,489 infections and 5,890 deaths, in West Africa, the number of infections is 237,071 and that of deaths is 3,150, while Central Africa has 73,077 cases and 1,454 deaths.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most fatalities, after South Africa, registers 7,352 dead and 131,315 infected, followed by Morocco, with 7,204 fatal victims and 430,562 infected, a figure more than three times higher than that of Egypt.
Among the six most affected countries are also Tunisia, with 4,426 deaths and 130,230 infected, Algeria, with 2,722 deaths and 97,857 cases, Ethiopia, with 1,901 fatalities and 122,413 infections, and Kenya, with 1,655 deaths and 95,843 infected.
Regarding Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola recorded 399 deaths and 17,149 cases, followed by Mozambique (159 deaths and 18,162 cases), Cape Verde (112 deaths and 11,698 cases), Equatorial Guinea (86 deaths and 5,248 cases), Guinea -Bissau (45 dead and 2,446 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (17 killed and 1,009 cases).
The first case of Covid-19 in Africa emerged in Egypt on 14 February, and Nigeria was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to report cases of infection on 28 February.
The Covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,756,060 deaths resulting from more than 80 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report made by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
