Mozambique: 56 new Covid-19 cases and no deaths reported on Sunday – AIM report

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Mozambique: 56 new Covid-19 cases and no deaths reported on Sunday – AIM report

6:17 CAT | 31 May 2021

File photo: Lusa

The Mozambican health authorities on Sunday reported 56 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease – the largest figure for a 24 hour period this month.

According to a Ministry of Health press release, since the start of the pandemic, 523,453 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,222 of them in the previous 24 hours.

Most of the new cases diagnosed on Sunday were from the far south – 30 from Maputo city, and 17 from Maputo province. Thus 83.9 per cent of the new cases were from Maputo city and province. There were also three cases from Zambezia, three from Sofala, two from Nampula and one from Inhambane.

The positivity rate (the proportion of those tested found to be infected) for Sunday was 4.6 per cent. This is considerably higher than the rates for the previous week, which were as follows:

29 May 2.2 per cent
28 May 1.4 per cent
27 May 1.9 per cent
26 May 1.3 per cent
25 May 2.7 per cent
24 May 2.6 per cent

No further deaths from Covid-19 were reported on Sunday. Thus the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remains 836.

The Ministry also reported that, in the same 24 hour period, five new patients were hospitalised in the Covid-19 wards, all of them in Maputo. The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment units rose from 12 on Saturday to 17 on Sunday. 12 of these (70.6 per cent) were in Maputo city. There were also two patients in Nampula, and one each in Zambezia, Tete and Sofala. There were no Covid-19 patients in the other six provinces.

Only eight people were declared as fully recovered from Covid-19 on Sunday, all in Maputo province. The total number of recoveries rose to 69,507, or 98.2 per cent of all those diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases rose from 385 on Saturday to 433 on Sunday. The geographical distribution of these cases was as follows: Maputo city, 251 (58 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 68; Tete, 21; Niassa, 20; Inhambane, 18; Nampula, 18; Zambezia, 14; Manica, eight; Sofala, seven; Gaza, six; and Cabo Delgado, two.

Thus several key indicators – the number of new and of active cases, the number of hospitalisations and the positivity rate – went into reverse on Sunday. But not much can be gleaned from one day’s statistics: data from several more days will be required before any trends can be discerned.

Source: Lusa