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Just in: Mozambique reports five Covid-19 deaths

6:10 CAT | 11 Nov 2020

File photo: Lusa

Mozambique today (November 11) reported five Covid-19 deaths, the highest daily toll ever reported. “Of the deaths announced today, three took place on Monday, November 9, and two deaths occurred today,” reads the Ministry of Health statement.

The victims were Mozambican citizens: a 68-year-old woman and four men aged between 58 and 75 . They were all hospitalised in Maputo city .

The death toll in the country now stands at 104.

The document also indicates that 99 more people have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 13,991.

Of the cases diagnosed in Mozambique so far. 13,687 are locally transmitted and 304 are imported.

MISAU today also reported 211 new recoveries, rising the cumulative to 11,959 (85%).

The city of Maputo, the country’s capital, has the highest number of active cases, with a total of 1,314, followed by Maputo province, with 247, and the remaining provinces have less than 180 cases.

Since the announcement of the first case in the country, on March 22, a total of 205,952 suspected people have been tested.

Mozambique is the Portuguese-speaking African country with the most cases of infection with the new coronavirus and the second with the most fatalities.

Angola records 308 deaths and 12,816 cases, Mozambique (104 deaths and 13,991 cases), followed by Cape Verde (101 deaths and 9,499 cases), Equatorial Guinea (85 deaths and 5,102 cases), Guinea-Bissau (43 deaths and 2,419 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (16 deaths and 962 cases).

The Covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,275,113 deaths in more than 51.5 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.

Source: Lusa / O País