Mozambique: Another day with no Covid-19 deaths – AIM report

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Mozambique: Another day with no Covid-19 deaths – AIM report

6:23 CAT | 28 May 2021

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No deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease were reported in Mozambique on Thursday, according to a press release from the Health Ministry.

Thus the total number of Covid-19 deaths in the country remains 834, of which 20 occurred in May.

Since the start of the pandemic, 549,351 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,174 of them in the previous 24 hours. Over half of the samples tested came from the far south – 508 from Maputo city, and 146 from Maputo province. There were also 98 from Inhambane, 95 from Manica, 94 from Gaza, 79 from Nampula, 65 from Tete, 61 from Sofala. 15 from Niassa, eight from Zambezia, and five from Cabo Delgado.

1,152 of the tests yielded negative results, and 22 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This brings the number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 70,673.

All the new cases reported on Thursday were Mozambican citizens. 13 were women and nine were men. Four were children under the age of 15 and two were over 65 years old. Ten (45.5 per cent) were from Maputo city. There were also six positive cases from Niassa, three from Maputo province, and one each from Nampula, Gaza and Tete.

The positivity rate (the proportion of those tested found to be infected) for Thursday was 1.9 per cent. This compares with rates of 1.3 per cent on Wednesday, 2.7 per cent on Tuesday, 2.6 per cent on Monday, three per cent on Sunday, and one per cent on Saturday.

The Ministry reported that, over the same 24 hour period, one Covid-19 patient was discharged from hospital (in Zambezia), and no new cases were admitted.

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres fell from 17 on Wednesday to 16 on Thursday. 10 of these patients (62.5 per cent) were in Maputo. There were also two in Nampula, two in Zambezia, one in Tete and one in Sofala. There were no patients hospitalised in the other six provinces.

The Ministry also reported that on Thursday 34 people, all of them in Niassa, were declared fully recovered from Covid-19. This brings the total number of recoveries to 69,227, or 98 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases fell from 620 on Wednesday to 608 on Thursday. The geographical distribution of these cases was as follows: Sofala, 258 (42.4 per cent); Maputo city, 210; Maputo province, 49; Tete, 21; Inhambane, 18; Nampula, 15; Niassa, 12; Gaza, 12; Zambezia, 10; Manica, two; and Cabo Delgado, one.

Source: AIM