Mozambique: Three further Covid-19 deaths reported on Thursday – AIM

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Mozambique: Three further Covid-19 deaths reported on Thursday – AIM

6:17 CAT | 09 Apr 2021

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The Mozambican health authorities on Thursday reported a further three deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

This follows a week in which the death rate fell sharply. No deaths were reported on 1 April, 4 April, 5 April and 7 April. This was the first time this year of a week in which four days were free of Covid-19 deaths.

According to a Thursday press release from the Health Ministry, the latest victims were two men and one woman, all of Mozambican nationality, and aged 44, 67 and 87. All three died in Maputo city. This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 788.

Since the start of the pandemic, 492,119 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 815 of them in the previous 24 hours. Of the samples tested, 316 (38.8 per cent) were from Maputo city, 123 from Nampula, 100 from Gaza, 87 from Zambezia, 66 from Cabo Delgado, 65 from Sofala, 36 from Maputo province, 16 from Tete, five from Niassa, and one from Manica. No tests were reported from Inhambane.

780 of the tests yielded negative results, while 35 people tested positive for the coronavirus, bringing the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 68,466.

Of the positive cases diagnosed on Thursday, three were Mozambican citizens and one was a foreigner (the Ministry release did not give his or her nationality). 18 were women or girls and 17 were men or boys. Three were children under the age of 15 and four were over 65 years old.

12 of the new cases were from Maputo city, 11 from Nampula, six from Zambezia, four from Sofala, one from Tete and one from Cabo Delgado. None of those tested in Niassa, Manica, Gaza or Maputo province were carrying the coronavirus.

Over the same 24 hour period, eight Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (six in Maputo, one in Nampula and one in Zambezia), and five new cases were admitted (all in Maputo).

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 wards fell to 62 (down from 68 on Wednesday), 41 of these patients (66.1 per cent) are in Maputo. There are also seven patients in Zambezia, five in Nampula, five in Sofala, three in Matola and one in Inhambane. Currently there are no patients hospitalised in the Covid-19 isolation facilities in Cabo Delgado, Niassa, Tete, Manica and Gaza.

The Ministry also announced that a further 66 people were declared fully recovered from Covid-19 on Thursday – 33 in Sofala, 18 in Tete, and 15 in Zambezia. The total number of recoveries now stands at 58,129, or 84.9 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases is now 9,545 (down from 9,579 on Wednesday). The geographical distribution of these cases was as follows: Maputo city, 7,429 (77.8 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 842; Sofala, 339; Nampula, 278; Niassa, 162; Zambezia, 160; Inhambane, 151; Cabo Delgado, 84; Gaza, 60; Tete, 33; and Manica, seven.

Source: AIM