Greater Maputo: 100 doctors move to the front lines, Health Minister included – reports

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Greater Maputo: 100 doctors move to the front lines, Health Minister included – reports

3:47 CAT | 10 Feb 2021

Health Minister Armindo Tiago at the meeting held yesterday. [Photo: MISAU]

The Mozambican Ministry of Health has announced that doctors assigned to administrative and management posts will “join the teams on the front lines of combating Covid-19”.

About 100 doctors will join frontline teams from today, Wednesday, and will work in prevention, diagnosis and medical assistance in hospital units in the Maputo metropolitan area, the “main transmission focus” of the new coronavirus, a MISAU statement reveals.

Among the doctors is the Minister of Health, Armindo Tiago, who will, on Fridays, practice medicine in the Maputo Central Hospital infirmary, and on Saturdays work in the emergency room of the same health unit.

The Greater Maputo region, which includes the cities of Maputo, Matola and the districts of Boane and Marracuene, has registered a worrying increase in the number of positive Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths since the beginning of the second wave.

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By Tuesday. February 9, Mozambique had registered 480 Covid-19 deaths and 45,785 cases, of which 60% are considered to have recovered, with 312 patients currently hospitalized – 81% in the city of Maputo.

Among the 20 new measures announced by President Nyusi on Thursday is a curfew from 21:00 to 04:00 in the Maputo metropolitan area.

The new restrictions, in force since Friday and lasting 30 days, were enacted in view of the increase in the number of Covid-19 cases, mostly concentrated in Maputo, which in January alone exceeded the figures for the whole of 2020.