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3:27 CAT | 08 Jul 2021
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Mozambique government officials are to meet representatives of the United Nations and other partners in Maputo on Friday to review the response plan for Covid-19 as a third wave of infections is sweeping the country, a source at the UN told Lusa on Thursday.
“It is a dynamic plan,” so the meeting should help “decide how best to support efforts to fight the novel coronavirus and the situation generated by the new variants in the country,” the source said.
On Wednesday, the country’s minister of health, Armindo Tiago, said there was a risk that some provinces would run out of beds and oxygen reserves to treat the most serious cases.
A source involved in the process told Lusa that this would be one of the topics discussed at the meeting, with UN agencies, other partners and the local authorities needing to draft a plan to support and reinforce oxygen supply chains.
The UN group is led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), while the group of partners is led by the World Bank.
Mozambique has seen an acceleration in the number of infections and deaths since last month.
During the panemic it has had a cumulative 934 deaths and 83,485 cases, 86% of which are deemed recovered.
Worldwide, the pandemic has caused at least 3,996,519 deaths worldwide, resulting from more than 184.4 million cases of infection, according to the most recent report by Agence France-Presse.
The respiratory disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, detected at the end of 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China, and currently with variants identified in countries such as the United Kingdom, India or South Africa.
Source: Lusa
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