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Mozambique: 113 more Covid-19 cases reported on Thursday – AIM report
5:58 CAT | 18 Dec 2020
The Mozambican health authorities announced on Thursday that a further 113 people have been diagnosed with the Covid-19 respiratory disease.
According to a Ministry of Health press release, since the start of the pandemic, 253,364 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,755 of them in the previous 24 hours.
Of the samples tested, 1,249 were from Maputo city, 99 from Maputo province, 97 from Sofala, 91 from Niassa, 69 from Cabo Delgado, 55 from Gaza, 43 from Tete, 25 from Zambezia, 17 from Manica and 10 from Nampula. There were no tests undertaken in Inhambane province.
1,642 of the tests gave negative results, and 113 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 17,256. Of the new cases, 101 are Mozambicans, four are South Africans, three are Portuguese, two are Brazilian, one is German, one Swiss and one Cuban.
62 of the cases are men or boys and 51 are women or girls. 11 are children under 15 years of age, and three are over 65 years old. As has become the norm in recent weeks, the great majority of cases are from the far south – 57 from Maputo city and 24 from Maputo province. Thus Maputo city and province account for 72 per cent of the cases reported on Thursday. There were also seven cases from Sofala, six cases from Nampula, six cases from Zambezia, four from Cabo Delgado, three from Niassa, three from Tete, two from Gaza, and one from Manica.
In line with standard Ministry of Health procedure, all 113 new cases are in home isolation and their contacts are being traced.
The Ministry release said that, over the past 24 hours, a further seven people suffering from Covid-19 have been admitted to hospital, six in Maputo city and one in Nampula. This brings the number of people under medical care in Covid-19 isolation wards to 37 (31 in Maputo, two in Matola, one in Nampula, one in Zambezia, one in Tete and one in Manica).
In the same 24 hour period, 16 people made a full recovery from Covid-19 (nine in Zambezia, three in Cabo Delgado, three in Tete, and one in Inhambane). The total number of recoveries now stands at 15,257, which is 87.7 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with the coronavirus in Mozambique.
There are currently 1,850 active cases of Covid-19 in the country, distributed as follows: Maputo city, 1,478 (79.9 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 126; Cabo Delgado, 96; Niassa, 38; Sofala, 28; Zambezia, 21; Gaza, 18; Nampula, 18; Inhambane, 11; Tete, nine; Manica, seven.
No deaths were reported on Thursday, and so Mozambique’s Covid-19 death toll remains 145.
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