Covid-19: Mozambique reports six Covid-19 deaths, and 879 new cases

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Covid-19: Mozambique reports six Covid-19 deaths, and 879 new cases

1:34 CAT | 10 Jan 2021

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Mozambique reported on Saturday (January 9) a new daily record of infections and deaths due to Covid-19, the Ministry of Health (MISAU) announced. The country reported 879 new cases and six deaths.

Of the total deaths announced this Saturday (09.01) five are Mozambican nationalss and one is a South African citizen. All were hospitalised in the city of Maputo, according to a bulletin to update data on the pandemic. ” These are two female patients, 42 and 45 years old and four male patients, 44, 58, 60 and 77 years old. Of these, two (2) deaths were reported on 8.1.2021 and four (4) deaths were reported on 9.1.2021,” reads the MISAU brief. [Read the full text, in Portuguese, HERE]

“The six deaths announced yesterday represent the largest number of fatalities caused by Covid-19 in Mozambique announced in a single day”, emphasises the document.

The total number of deaths in Mozambique thus rises to 187.

The 879 new cases announced yesterday include 32 five-year-old children and have brought the country’s cumulative to 21,361, of which 21,045 were locally transmitted and 316 imported.

The City of Maputo recorded 547 of the 879 newly diagnosed cases, announced yesterday, corresponding to 62.2% of the total of new cases reported yesterday across the country. It was followed by Inhambane Province with 83 new cases, corresponding to 9.4%.

Health authorities also announced that another 42 people are reported to have recovered, accounting for 17,521 in total (82%).

Of the 3,649 active cases, the majority are concentrated in the city of Maputo, the country’s capital, which on Saturday accounted for 2,209 active cases.

Since the announcement of the first case on March 22, Mozambique has tested a total of 286,249 suspected cases of infection.

This Saturday (09.01), the World Health Organisation (WHO) also reported a further 15 thousand deaths caused by Covid-19 in the last 24 hours – a record number and that brings the death toll since the beginning of the pandemic to 1.9 million.