Covid-19: Another 68 confirmed cases in Mozambique raise total to 3,508

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Covid-19: Another 68 confirmed cases in Mozambique raise total to 3,508

9:37 CAT | 26 Aug 2020

File photo: Lusa

Mozambique reported 68 more infections with the novel coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 3,508, still with 21 deaths, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday.

“Of the 68 cases announced today, 65 are individuals of Mozambican nationality and three are foreigners, namely a South African, a Zimbabwean and a French national,” the data update sent to the media reads.

Most of the newly diagnosed cases are in the city of Maputo (41), followed by Gaza province (09), Cabo Delgado (08), Manica (03), Tete (03), Maputo (03) and Zambézia (01). All are complying with a home isolation regime, health authorities indicate.

“At this moment, the process of identifying contacts is underway,” the note adds.

Of the cases already registered in Mozambique, 3,259 are locally transmitted and 249 are imported, with 10 people hospitalised and “suffering from various chronic pathologies associated with Covid-19”.

Health officials also announced that another 148 people were reported to have recovered, bringing the total of recoveries to 1,809 (51%).

According to the Ministry of Health, 68 of the recovered patients are from the city of Maputo, 40 from the province of Maputo, 14 from Cabo-Delgado, 20 from Manica and six from Inhambane province. Of these, 140 are of Mozambican nationality and eight foreigners, of whom four are Portuguese, three are Indian and one is Ukrainian.

Mozambique had 1,674 active Covid-19 cases by Tuesday (August 26), distributed as follows.

The city of Maputo, the country’s capital, has the largest number, with 877 infections, followed by Nampula province, with 249 cases, Maputo province with 205, Cabo Delgado with 184, Sofala with 57, Manica with 31, Inhambane with 28, Gaza with 17, Niassa with 12, Tete with 11 and Zambézia with three cases.

Mozambique has already tested a total of 89,158 suspected cases and just over 1.8 million people have been screened since the first infection was announced on March 22.

The Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 813,000 lives and infected more than 23.6 million people in 196 countries and territories worldwide, according to the French AFP press agency.

In Africa, there have been 27,984 confirmed deaths among the about 1.2 million people infected in 55 countries, according to the most recent pandemic statistics.

The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.

Source: Lusa / O País