Covid-19: Mozambique reports 19 new cases, cumulative total at 472

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Covid-19: Mozambique reports 19 new cases, cumulative total at 472

12:38 CAT | 11 Jun 2020

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Mozambique recorded 19 more Covid-19 cases on Tuesday and Wednesday, bringing to 472 the total number of those infected with the new coronavirus, the Ministry of Health announced yesterday.

“The new cases are all of Mozambican nationality,” said Rosa Marlene in her daily update.

The 19 new patients, including four children, were registered in the provinces of Maputo (8), Nampula (9) and the city of Maputo (2), she said.

“The cases reported today are in isolation at home and the mapping of their contact networks is currently under way,” she added.

Of the 472 cases so far registered in Mozambique, 429 are of local transmission and 43 are imported, with two deaths and six hospitalised in Nampula, the first “community transmission” site, according to the authorities.

The Ministry of Health also indicated that 138 people are considered to have recovered.

Cabo Delgado and Nampula provinces and Maputo city lead with the highest number of cases, with 164, 144 and 73, respectively, the rest being distributed across the country.

Since the announcement of the first case in Mozambique, on March 22, 15,544 tests have been carried out and about 18,000 people out of more than 900,000 screened have been quarantined.

A total of 2,075 continue to be monitored by the Mozambican health authorities.

In Africa, there have been 5,334 confirmed deaths among the approximately 196,000 infected in 54 countries, according to the most recent statistics on the pandemic on the continent.

Guinea-Bissau leads among Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa with 1,389 infections and 12 deaths, followed by Equatorial Guinea (1,306 cases and 12 deaths), Cape Verde (585 cases and five deaths) , São Tomé and Príncipe (611 cases and 12 dead) and Angola (96 infected and four deaths).

Brazil is the worst-affected Portuguese-speaking country and one of the hardest hit in the world, with the second-highest number of infections – almost 740,000, just less the United States, and the third-highest number of deaths – 37,406, after the United States and United Kingdom.

The Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed nearly 408,000 deaths and infected more than 7.1 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to a summary from the French AFP press agency.