Mozambique: 618 new Covid-19: cases and 12 deaths reported on Thursday – AIM

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Mozambique: 618 new Covid-19: cases and 12 deaths reported on Thursday – AIM

6:55 CAT | 21 Aug 2021

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The Mozambican health authorities on Thursday reported 618 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease and a further 12 deaths.

The latest victims were nine men and three women, all Mozambican citizens, and aged between 35 and 85. This brings the total death toll in Mozambique from Covid-19 to 1,773.

According to a Ministry of Health Thursday press release, since the start of the pandemic, 818,357 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 3,203 of them in the previous 24 hours.

2,585 of these tests yielded negative results, while 618 people tested positive for the coronavirus. Thus the number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique rose to 141,383. Of the new cases identified on Thursday, 341 were women or girls and 277 were men or boys. 65 were children under the age of 16, and 42 were over 65 years old. In nine cases, no age information was available,

The gender balance in the positive cases has changed substantially. Throughout August more women than men have tested positive for the disease, but in previous months there was usually a majority of men among the positive cases.

117 of the new cases (19 per cent), were from Nampula, and 109 were from Maputo city. There were also 96 cases from Manica, 67 from Zambezia, 64 from Inhambane, 59 from Cabo Delgado, 44 from Niassa, 30 from Maputo province, 22 from Gaza, six from Tete and four from Sofala.

The national positivity rate (the proportion of those tested found to be infected by the virus) on Thursday was 19.3 per cent – roughly in line with the rates of the previous few days (17.3 per cent on Wednesday, 23.1 per cent on Tuesday, 19.3 per cent on Monday, and 18.8 per cent on Sunday.

The provinces with the highest positivity rate on Thursday were Zambezia (35.6 per cent), Manica (32.3 per cent), Nampula (27.8 per cent) and Niassa (22.7 per cent). The lowest rates were recorded in the central provinces of Tete (seven per cent) and Sofala (4.3 per cent). Three out of the four provinces with rates above 20 per cent are north of the Zambezi. This is a reversal of the situation in July, when the highest rates were always from the southern and central provinces.

The Ministry also reported that, over the same 24 hour period. 32 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (21 in Maputo, three in Zambezia, three in Niassa, two in Nampula, and one each in Tete, Manica and Matola) and only 15 new cases were admitted (seven in Maputo, three in Tete, two in Zambezia and one each in Niassa, Manica and Matola).

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres fell from 253 on Wednesday to 223 on Thursday. 154 of these patients (69 per cent) were in Maputo, There were also 16 patients in Matola, 11 in Zambezia, 10 in Nampula, eight in Niassa, six in Zambezia, six in Inhambane, four in Gaza, three in Manica, three in Sofala and two in Cabo Delgado.

The Ministry also reported that a further 525 people had made a full recovery from Covid-19 (192 in Manica, 141 in Inhambane, 116 in Gaza, and 76 in Zambezia). The total number of recoveries now stands at 122,747, or 86.8 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases rose slightly from 16,778 on Wednesday to 16,859 on Thursday. The geographical distribution of these cases was as follows: Maputo city, 5,903 (35 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 5,874; Inhambane, 1,169; Nampula, 1,104; Zambezia, 879; Niassa, 867; Gaza, 451; Manica, 311; Cabo Delgado, 268; Tete, 40; and Sofala, 33.

As for the national vaccination campaign against Covid-19, the Ministry reported that in the previous 24 hours, 110,650 people had been vaccinated, To date, 656,629 people have been fully vaccinated against the disease, and 1,864,229 have received at least one dose of the vaccine,

Source: AIM