Mozambique: Record daily total of 32 deaths associated with Covid-19 reported on Wednesday – Lusa

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Mozambique: Record daily total of 32 deaths associated with Covid-19 reported on Wednesday – Lusa

11:24 CAT | 22 Jul 2021

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Mozambique has recorded a further 32 deaths associated with Covid-19, the highest daily figure so far in the pandemic, and 1,704 newly diagnosed cases of infection by the new coronavirus that causes the disease, the country’s Ministry of Health reported on Wednesday.

The deaths occurred in people aged between 10 and 99, of whom 17 were men or boy and 15 women or girls, all Mozambique nationals, it reported.

The deaths reported on Wednesday were declared between Monday and Wednesday – seven deaths were declared on Monday, July 19, 21 were declared on Tuesday, July 20, and four deaths had been declared on that same day – the ministry said in its daily bulletin updating data on the pandemic.

Mozambique has so far recorded 1,190 deaths associated with Covid-19 and 103,713 confirmed infections, 77% of which are deemed to have recovered.

According to the health authorities, the country had, by Wednesday, 22,461 active cases of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, with 494 patients in hospital.

A total of 682,145 suspected cases have been tested in Mozambique, of which 4,960 in the 24 hours to midnight on Wednesday.

Worldwide, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 4,119,920 deaths worldwide, among more than 191.3 million cases of infection by the new coronavirus, according to the most recent report by Agence France-Presse.

The respiratory disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China, and currently with variants identified in countries such as the United Kingdom, India, South Africa, Brazil and Peru.

Source: Lusa / MISAU