Mozambique reports four more COVID-19 deaths, 122 infections

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Mozambique reports four more COVID-19 deaths, 122 infections

8:39 CAT | 12 Sep 2020

Four more deaths and 122 new infections in Mozambique have pushed the nationwide death toll to 35 and the number of COVID-19 cases to 5,040 since March.

Today, September 12, Mozambique reported four more COVID-19 deaths, all in Maputo city.

One death occurred on September 9, one death occurred on September 10 and two deaths occurred on September 11, reads the communique issued by the Ministry of Health. [Full text, in Portuguese, HERE]

The decease patients were a woman and three men of Mozambican nationality, aged 58, 60, 65 and 85 , who died in Maputo city after the worsening of their clinical condition during hospitalisation, adds the brief.

In the last 24 hours ,the country tested 1,928 suspected cases i of which 122 came back positive, bringing the total of confirmed cases to 5,040.

Mozambique currently has 2.096 active cases.

Of the new cases announced today, 120 are individuals of Mozambican nationality and two are foreigners: one Bengali and done Sri Lankan.

The newly diagnosed cases cases are distributed as follows: 90 cases in the city of Maputo,. 24 cases in Maputo province, two cases in Nampula province, four cases in Sofala, one case in Tete and one in Inhambane.

Of the 122 new cases, four are children under the age of 5 and five are individuals over the age of 65.

The 25- to 34-year-old age group recorded the highest number of cases (35), accounting for 28.7% of the total reported cases today.

65 (53.3%) of the new cases reported this Saturday are male and 57 (46.7%) female.

All the new cases are local transmissions. The cases reported today are in house isolation and the tracking of their contacts is underway.

Mozambique has a cumulative of 113 patients hospitalised due to COVID-19, of which 19 are under medical care in isolation centres. According to the statement, the hospitalised individuals suffer from various chronic pathologies associated with COVID-19.

The health authorities also reported six more fully recovered people, increasing the cumulative number of recoveries to 2,905.

The number of people who have overcome the infection is about 58% of the total number of cases.

Mozambique has performed 112,238 tests since the pandemic was declared six months ago.

Of the cases registered to date and since the start of the pandemic in the country, 4,757 cases are local transmissions and 283 imported.

The Covid-19 pandemic has already caused at least 916,372 deaths and more than 28.5 million infections in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.

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

Four more coronavirus deaths reported – AIM

The Mozambican health authorities announced on Saturday that a further four people have died from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, bringing the death toll since the start of the pandemic to 35.

According to a press release from the Ministry of Health, all four died in Maputo city. The three men and one woman were all Mozambican citizens. They were 58, 60, 65 and 85 years old. One died last Wednesday, one on Thursday and two on Friday. The release gave no further details.

The Ministry said that, since the first case was diagnosed on 22 March, 112,238 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,928 of them in the previous 24 hours. 1,325 samples were tested in public sector facilities, and 603 in private laboratories.

The samples tested in the private sector came from four provinces – Cabo Delgado (366), Maputo city (201), Nampula (25) and Tete (11).

Of all the samples tested, 826 were from Maputo city, 381 from Cabo Delgado, 245 from Maputo province, 152 from Nampula, 105 from Inhambane, 74 from Gaza, 68 from Manica, 31 from Zambezia, 25 from Sofala, and 21 from Tete.

1,806 of the tests proved negative, and 122 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This brings the number of people who have tested positive to 5,040.

120 of the new cases are Mozambicans, one is a Bangladeshi and one is from Sri Lanka. 65 re men or boys and 57 are women or girls. Four are children under five years of age, and five are over 65 years old.

The vast majority of these cases – 90 – are from Maputo city, and 24 are from Maputo province (13 from Matola city and 11 from Marracuene district). So over 93 per cent of the new cases come from Maputo city and province.

Four cases were from Beira, and two were from Nampula city. One was from Tete city and one from the Inhambane district of Massinga.

In line with standard Ministry of Health procedure, all the new cases are now in domestic isolation and their contacts are being traced.

Over the same 24 hour period, two Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital in Maputo, but two others were admitted. Thus the number of people under medical care in Covid-19 isolation wards remains 19 – 15 in Maputo city, two in Tete, one in Nampula and one in Gaza.

The Ministry announced that a further six people had made a full recovery from Covid-19 (three in Nampula and three in Inhambane). This brings the number of recoveries to 2,905 (57.6 per cent of all people who tested positive since the start of the pandemic).

As of Saturday, the geographical breakdown of all 5,040 positive cases, by the provinces where they were diagnosed, was as follows: Maputo city, 1,959; Maputo province, 885; Cabo Delgado, 649; Nampula, 557; Sofala, 191; Gaza, 180; Zambezia, 172; Niassa, 150; Inhambane, 102; Manica, 98; Tete, 97.

The main Covid-19 statistics for Mozambique are now: 5,040 confirmed cases, of whom 2,905 have made a complete recovery and 2,096 are active cases. 39 Covid-19 patients have died, 3 from the disease and four from other causes.

Source: Lusa / O País / Livenews48 / MISAU / AIM