12 more Covid-19 deaths reported; the youngest a nine-year-old child | Mozambique

Login

Register

http://www.clubofmozambique.com/

12 more Covid-19 deaths reported; the youngest a nine-year-old child | Mozambique

3:49 CAT | 05 Feb 2021

Picture: NBC

On Thursday, on the same day President Nyusi was to deliver an address to the nation announcing new Covid-19 measures, the Ministry of Health issued a press release reporting 12 more deaths, 1,055 newly diagnosed cases, 38 hospitalisations, 26 discharges and a further 188 recoveries.

The victims were all Mozambican: seven male and five female, aged between nine (9) and 75. The deaths reported yesterday were declared as follows: one death was declared on Tuesday, nine deaths were declared on Wednesday and two deaths were declared on Thursday of this week.

These deaths raised the country’s death toll from Covid-19 to 427, of which 338 occurred in Maputo city.

Of the 1,055 newly diagnosed cases, Maputo city recorded 476 new cases, or 45.1% of the total new cases reported yesterday across the country, followed by the Gaza province with 176 new cases, corresponding to 16.7%.

Of those newly diagnosed, 1,026 are Mozambican, two are foreigners and 27 are individuals whose nationality remains to be determined.

According to the chart in MISAU’s report (below), 2.614 tests were performed in public sector laboratories and zero were performed in private sector laboratories.

The ages of the newly diagnosed cases reported this Thursday, February 4, are presented by the Ministry of Health as follows:

Under 5 years old: 15 cases

From 5 to 14 years old: 29 cases

From 15 to 24 years old: 135 cases

From 25 to 34 years old: 283 cases

From 35 to 44 years old: 204 cases

From 45 to 54 years old: 170 cases

From 55 to 64 years old: 117 cases

Over 65 years old: 69 cases

As of this Thursday, Mozambique had accumulated 42,488 officially diagnosed cases since the outbreak of the pandemic in March, 2020. Of these, 42,172 are said to be of local transmission, and 316 imported.

With a further 188 declared free from the virus yesterday (185 Mozambicans and three foreigners), the country has now seen 25,673 people recover from the new coronavirus.

From Wednesday to Thursday, 38 more patients were hospitalised because of Covid-19, while 26 were discharged. As a result, there were, on Thursday, 335 patients hospitalised in Mozambique with the novel coronavirus, 249 of them (74.3%) in Maputo city.

Mozambique currently has 16,384 active Covid-19 cases, 8.734 of which are in Maputo city.