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Just in: Mozambique’s Covid-19 death toll rises to 163
5:31 CAT | 29 Dec 2020
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Mozambique today (December 29) reported yet another Covid-19 death, bringing the cumulative number of deaths to 163. The country also registered 62 new cases of the disease in the previous 24 hours, the Ministry of Health reports.
A 70-year-old Mozambican woman died today in a Maputo city hospital, according to the ministry’s daily data update bulletin.
With the 62 cases registered today, Mozambique increases the total of confirmed coronavirus cases to 18,372, of which 18,059 are locally transmitted and 313 imported.
Mozambique also recorded, in the last 24 hours, 261 new recoveries, bringing the total to 16,439 (89% of the cumulative infections).
Maputo city has the largest number active cases, with a total of 1,318. It is followed by the province of Nampula, with 89 active cases.
Since the announcement of the first case on March 22, the country has tested a total of 268,576 suspected cases.
The Covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,775,272 deaths resulting from more than 81.5 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report made by the French agency AFP.
In Africa, there are 63,344 confirmed deaths and more than 2.6 million infected in 55 countries, according to the most recent statistics on the continent’s pandemic.
Among the Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola has 403 deaths and 17,296 cases, followed by Mozambique (163 deaths and 18,372 cases), Cape Verde (112 deaths and 11,723 cases), Equatorial Guinea (86 deaths and 5,248 cases), Guinea-Bissau (45 deaths and 2,446 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (17 deaths and 1,014 cases).
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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Publicado por Ministério da Saúde – MISAU em Terça-feira, 29 de dezembro de 2020
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