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5:11 CAT | 08 Jul 2021
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The Mozambican health authorities on Wednesday announced that a further 1,139 people were diagnosed with the Covid-19 respiratory disease in the previous 24 hours.
This brings the number of new cases of Covid-19 identified in the first seven days of July to 7,081 – an average of over a thousand a day. This is the worst week for new infections in Mozambique since the onset of the pandemic,
A Wednesday Ministry of Health press release also reported a further 11 deaths from Covid-19. The latest victims were eight men and three women, aged between 30 and 81. Ten were Mozambican citizens and one was a foreigner (the Ministry release did not give his or her nationality). Ten of the deaths occurred in Maputo city and one in Manica. This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 934.
Since the start of the pandemic, 622,539 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 3,983 of them in the previous 24 hours. The great majority of these tests took place in Maputo and Tete, the areas worst hit by Covid-19. There were 1,496 tests in Maputo city, 438 in Maputo province and 908 in Tete. Between them, these three provinces accounted for 71.4 per cent of Wednesday’s tests.
There were also 223 tests in Sofala, 216 in Nampula, 165 in Inhambane, 137 in Cabo Delgado, 123 in Niassa, 104 in Zambezia, 91 in Gaza and 82 in Manica.
2,844 of the tests gave negative results and 1,139 were positive for the coronavirus. This brings the total number of cases of Covid-19 diagnosed in Mozambique to 83,485.
433 of the new cases identified on Wednesday were from Maputo city, 355 from Tete and 178 from Maputo province. Thus 84.8 per cent of the new cases were in these Covid-19 hotspots. There were also 62 cases in Gaza, 40 in Manica, 29 in Sofala, 14 in Inhambane, 14 in Niassa, nine in Zambezia, four in Nampula and one in Cabo Delgado,
The national positivity rate (the proportion of those tested found to be infected with the virus) on Wednesday was 28.6 per cent, which is in line with the positivity rates recorded in the last few days (31.7 per cent on Tuesday, 29.6 per cent on Monday, 27 per cent on Sunday, and 31.8 per cent on Saturday).
The province with the highest positivity rate was Gaza, with a startling 65.2 per cent, followed by Manica (48.8 per cent), Maputo province (40.6 per cent), Tete (39.1 per cent) and Maputo city (28.9 per cent).
Positivity rates are much lower in the provinces north of the Zambezi – 11.4 per cent in Niassa, 8.6 per cent in Zambezia, 1.9 per cent in Nampula and 0.7 per cent in Cabo Delgado.
Over the same 24 hour period, 15 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (eight in Maputo, three in Tete, three in Sofala and one in Manica). But 54 new patients were admitted (35 in Maputo, eight in Sofala, three each in Tete, Gaza and Matola, and two in Manica).
The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres rose from 251 on Tuesday to 279 on Wednesday. 211 of these patients (75.6 per cent) were in Maputo, with 25 in Sofala, 21 in Tete, nine in Matola, four in Gaza, four in Manica, two in Inhambane and one each in Niassa, Nampula and Zambezia. There were no Covid-19 patients hospitalised in Cabo Delgado.
The Ministry also reported that on Wednesday 33 people were declared fully recovered from Covid-19, all of them in Inhambane. The total number of recoveries now stands at 72,437 which is 86.8 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.
The number of active Covid-19 cases has now increased to over 10,000, rising from 9,015 on Tuesday to 10,110 on Wednesday. The number of active cases has more than doubled since the end of June, when there were 4,317.
The distribution of the active cases on Wednesday was as follows: Maputo city, 4,800 (47.5 per cent of the total); Tete, 1,718; Maputo province, 1,681; Sofala, 535; Manica, 441; Gaza, 382; Niassa, 219; Inhambane, 201; Nampula, 58; Zambezia, 49 and Cabo Delgado, 26,
Source: AIM
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