Mozambique: 1,437 new Covid-19 cases and five deaths reported on Thursday – AIM

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Mozambique: 1,437 new Covid-19 cases and five deaths reported on Thursday – AIM

5:27 CAT | 09 Jul 2021

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The Mozambican health authorities on Thursday announced the diagnosis of a further 1,437 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

This is the second highest number of cases recorded in a single 24 hour period. The highest was the 1,458 cases reported on Tuesday.

This brings the total number of cases in the first eight days of July to 8,518, or over a thousand new cases a day.

According to a Thursday press release from the Ministry of Health, a further five deaths from Covid-19 were reported in the same 24 hours. The latest victims were three men and two women, all Mozambican citizens, and aged between 51 and 84. Two of them died in Sofala, one in Tete, one in Manica and one in Gaza.

There have now been more Covid-19 deaths in July than in any of the previous three months, In the first eight days of July there were 61 deaths, compared with 44 in all of June, 22 in May and 39 in April. The total death toll in Mozambique, since the start of the pandemic, now stands at 939.

The Ministry release added that 627,380 people have been tested for the coronavírus that causes Covid-19, 4,841 of them in the previous 24 hours. Most of the samples tested came from the Covid-19 hotspots of Maputo and Tete – 1,233 from Maputo city, 1,122 from Tete and 613 from Maputo province. These three provinces accounted for 61.3 per cent of all the tests administered on Thursday.

There were also 419 tests in Manica, 394 in Inhambane, 265 in Sofala, 228 in Cabo Delgado, 191 in Nampula, 186 in Gaza, 171 in Zambezia and 19 in Niassa.

3.404 of the tests gave negative results, and 1,437 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This brings the number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 84,922.

Tete reported the largest number of positive cases – 459 – followed by Maputo city (418), Maputo province (260) and Manica (118). These four provinces accounted for 87.3 per cent of all the cases identified on Thursday. There were also 83 positive cases diagnosed in Gaza, 43 in Inhambane, 34 in Sofala, nine in Zambezia, six in Nampula, four in Niassa and three in Cabo Delgado.

The national positivity rate (the proportion of those tested found to be infected with the virus) on Thursday was 29.7 per cent, not much different from the rates recorded on Wednesday of 28.6 per cent, on Tuesday of 31.7 per cent, on Monday of 29.6 per cent, and on Sunday of 27 per cent.

For the second day running Gaza was the province with the highest positivity rate, 44.6 per cent, followed by Maputo province (42.4 per cent), Tete (40.9 per cent), Maputo city (33.9 per cent), and Manica (28.2 per cent).

Once again, the provinces north of the Zambezi are escaping relatively lightly, with positivity rates much lower than in the centre and south. The positivity rate in Niassa was 21.1 per cent, but in the other northern provinces it was less than ten per cent – 5.3 per cent in Zambezia, 3.1 per cent in Nampula and 1.3 per cent in Cabo Delgado.

Over the same 24 hour period, 16 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (six in Maputo, five in Sofala, two in Tete, two in Manica and one in Inhambane). But 51 new patients were admitted (27 in Maputo, seven in Sofala, six in Tete, five in Manica, five in Matola, and one in Niassa).

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres rose from 279 on Thursday to 309 on Thursday. 232 of these (75.1 per cent) were in Maputo, 25 in Sofala, 24 in Tete, 14 in Matola, six in Manica, three in Gaza, two in Niassa, and one each in Inhambane, Nampula and Zambezia. No Covid-19 patients were hospitalised in Cabo Delgado,

The Ministry reported only 12 full recoveries from Covid-19 on Thursday, all of them in Inhambane. The total number of recoveries now stands at 72,449, which is 85.3 per cent of all those diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases rose from 10,110 on Wednesday to 11,530 on Thursday, The geographical distribution of these cases was as follows: Maputo city, 5,218 (45.3 per cent of the total); Tete, 2,176; Maputo province, 1.941; Sofala, 567; Manica, 558; Gaza, 464; Inhambane, 232; Niassa, 223; Nampula, 64; Zambezia, 58; and Cabo Delgado, 29.

Source: AIM