Mozambique: No Covid-19 deaths on four consecutive days

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Mozambique: No Covid-19 deaths on four consecutive days

7:07 CAT | 17 May 2021

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The Mozambican health authorities reported on Saturday that over the previous four days, no deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease have been recorded.

Thus the death toll from Covid-19 in Mozambique remains 826.

Other indicators are moving in a favorable direction, with a decline in the number of Covid-19 patients hospitalised, and a fall in the number of active cases to below 1,000.

According to a Ministry of Health press release, since the start of the pandemic, 535,701 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,657 of them in the previous 24 hours.

1,608 of these tests yielded negative results and 49 people tested positive for the coronavirus. The total number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique is now 70,410.

Of the positive cases reported on Saturday, 29 were from Maputo city and four were from Maputo province. There were also seven cases from Sofala, four from Manica, three from Inhambane and one each from Nampula and Zambezia.

The positivity rate (the proportion of those tested found to be infected) for this 24 hour period was just under three per cent. These compares with rates of 2.3 per cent on Friday, 2.5 per cent on Thursday, and 1.5 per cent on Wednesday.

The number of patients under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres fell from 25 on Friday to 21 on Saturday. 14 of these (67 per cent) were in Maputo. There were also two patients in Nampula, two in Sofala, two in Tete and one in Zambezia.

The Ministry release also reported that on Saturday a further 223 people were declared to be fully recovered from Covid-19 (220 in Maputo province and three in Zambezia). This brings the total number of recoveries to 68,710 or 97.9 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19.

With the number of recoveries outstripping the number of new cases, the number of active Covid-19 cases has continued to decline and is now less than 1,000. The number fell from 1.044 on Friday to 870 on Saturday.

The geographical distribution of these cases is as follows: Maputo city, 343 (39.4 per cent of the total); Sofala, 315; Maputo province, 80; Nampula, 40; Niassa, 36; Inhambane, 14; Manica, 12; Zambezia, 11; Tete, 11, Cabo Delgado, six; and Gaza, two.

Source: AIM