Mozambique: Country reports 14 new Covid-19 cases in last 24 hours

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Mozambique: Country reports 14 new Covid-19 cases in last 24 hours

7:19 CAT | 27 May 2020

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Mozambique’s Ministry of Health has registered 14 new cases of Covid-19 in the country in the last 24 hours, raising the total from 213 to 227, the Director of Public Health, Rosa Marlene, announced on Wednesday.

“The new cases concern citizens of Mozambican nationality, one of which without symptoms and 13 with mild to moderate symptoms,” Rosa Marlene said during a press conference to update data on the Covid-19 pandemic at the Ministry of Health in Maputo.

The 14 new cases were registered in Nampula (2) and Cabo Delgado (12) provinces, all in northern Mozambique, and of this number four are children under 15.

“The cases are in home isolation and at the moment the process of mapping the contacts is underway,” she said.

Of the 227 cases registered in Mozambique, 201 are of local transmission and 26 are imported. The disease has also caused one death in the country.

Of the total number of registered cases, 128 are in Cabo Delgado province, 10 in Nampula, 2 cases in Zambézia, 43 in Maputo city, 22 in Maputo province, 12 in Sofala, three in Tete, one in Manica, three in Inhambane and also three in Gaza.

Since the announcement of the first case in the country on March 22, 9,330 tests have been carried out, with around 15,000 people of the more than 795,000 screened being quarantined, with 1,416 still being followed by the health authorities.