COVID-19: 11 More deaths and 863 new cases reported on Saturday in Mozambique – AIM

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COVID-19: 11 More deaths and 863 new cases reported on Saturday in Mozambique – AIM

7:30 CAT | 15 Feb 2021

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The Mozambican health authorities on Saturday announced a further 11 deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 863 new cases.

According to a Ministry of Health press release, the latest victims are eight men and three women aged between 33 and 80. 10 were Mozambican citizens, and one was a foreigner (whose nationality the Ministry did not reveal). Eight of the deaths occurred in Maputo, one in Matola, one in Gaza and one in Sofala.

The total death toll from Covid-19 in Mozambique is now 525. 409 of these deaths (77.9 per cent occurred in Maputo). The first Covid-19 death was recorded on 25 May last year. Up to 31 December, 166 people had died of the disease. But the death rate has picked up dramatically this year with 359 deaths in January and the first 13 days of February.

Since the start of the pandemic, 380,622 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 3,495 in the previous 24 hours. Of the samples tested, 879 were from Maputo city, 568 from Inhambane, 373 from Maputo province, 360 from Sofala, 332 from Tete, 262 from Zambezia, 240 from Gaza, 198 from Manica, 151 from Cabo Delgado, 94 from Nampula and 38 from Niassa.

2,632 of the tests gave negative results, and 863 people tested positive for the coronavirus. 844 of these are known to be Mozambican, and the nationality of the others is yet to be confirmed. 448 are men or boys and 415 are women or girls. 49 are children under the age of 15, and 57 are over 65 years old. For 55 cases, age information was not available.

From the Saturday figures, Maputo remains the epicenter of the Mozambican epidemic, with 247 cases diagnosed in Maputo city, and 119 in Maputo province. Between them, Maputo city and province accounted for 42.2 per cent of the new cases. There were also 129 cases from Inhambane, 82 from Sofala, 69 from Cabo Delgado, 66 from Gaza, 64 from Tete, 55 from Zambezia, 16 from Nampula, 13 from Manica and three from Niassa.

The positivity rate on Saturday (the proportion of those tested found to be carrying the virus) was 24.6 per cent – which compares with 30.6 per cent on Friday, 28.2 per cent on Thursday, and 34.1 per cent on Wednesday.

The Ministry release said that, in the same 24 hour period, 21 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (11 in Maputo, four in Matola, three in Cabo Delgado, one in Niassa, one in Zambezia and one in Sofala), but 51 new patients were admitted (43 in Maputo, two in Matola, two in Nampula, and one each in Cabo Delgado, Sofala, Inhambane and Gaza).

As of Saturday, there were 307 people under medical care in the Covid-19 wards (up from 288 on Friday). 244 of the patients (79.5 per cent) were in Maputo. There were also 13 patients in Zambezia, 12 in Sofala, 11 in Matola, nine in Inhambane, seven in Tete, three in Gaza, three in Cabo Delgado, two in Niassa, two in Nampula, and one in Manica.

The Ministry announced that a further 490 people have made a full recovery from Covid-19 (323 in Maputo province, 122 in Inhambane, 42 in Zambezia and three in Maputo city). This brings the total number of recoveries to 31,506, which is 63.7 per cent of all those diagnosed in Mozambique with the coronavirus.

With the number of new cases on Saturday outstripping the number of recoveries, the number of active Covid-19 cases has begun to grow again. It is now 17,416 (up from 17,054 on Friday). The geographical distribution of the active cases is as follows: Maputo city, 9,807 (56.3 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 2,336; Sofala, 2,042; Cabo Delgado, 655; Inhambane, 578; Niassa, 433; Gaza, 426; Manica, 358; Tete. 339; Nampula, 274; and Zambezia, 168.

Source: AIM