Covid-19: Vaccination deadline extended by two days – AIM report

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Covid-19: Vaccination deadline extended by two days – AIM report

9:40 CAT | 10 Sep 2021

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The Mozambican Ministry of Health has extended by two days the deadline for concluding the current phase of the national vaccination campaign against Covid-19.

In this phase all those who have already received one dose of the Chinese Vero-Cell vaccine should receive their second dose. The phase was to have closed on Thursday – but by then around a million people were yet to receive the second dose.

So the Ministry extended the deadline until Saturday. According to the latest Ministry press release, 101,616 people were vaccinated on Thursday. By then, 1,667,192 people had been fully vaccinated since vaccination began on 8 March, and 1,864,229 people had received at least one dose of the vaccine.

The main target groups for vaccination in this phase are people over 50 years of age in the urban areas, veterans from Mozambique’s independence war, drivers and fare collectors on passenger transport, and teachers and other public servants not vaccinated in the earlier phases.

A Ministry press release on Thursday said that, since the start of the pandemic, 871,683 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 2,095 of them in the previous 24 hours. 1,920 of these tests yielded negative results, while 175 people tested positive for the virus. This brought the number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 148,727.

91 of the positive cases were men or boys and 84 were women or girls. 22 were children under the age of 15, and six were over 65 years old.

Once again, the majority of the new cases came from the north. 65.7 per cent were from the four provinces north of the Zambezi – 45 from Nampula, 41 from Cabo Delgado, 19 from Zambezia and 10 from Niassa.

The seven provinces of southern and central Mozambique accounted for 34.3 per cent of the cases – 23 in Inhambane, 16 in Maputo city, 11 in Gaza, six in Manica, two in Maputo province, two in Tete and none at all in Sofala.

The positivity rate (the proportion of those tested found to be carrying the coronavirus) on Thursday was 8.4 per cent. This was the first time the national positivity rate had dropped below 10 per cent since 18 June. The positivity rates over the past few days were 10.1 per cent on Wednesday, 11.8 per cent on Tuesday, 10.5 per cent on Monday, and 10.1 per cent on Sunday.

The provinces with the highest positivity rates recorded on Thursday were all in the north – Niassa (17.5 per cent), Cabo Delgado (15.9 per cent) and Nampula (14.9 per cent). Apart from Sofala, where there were no positive cases, the lowest rates were reported from Tete (2.4 per cent), and Manica and Maputo city (both with 3.2 per cent).

In the same 24 hour period, 13 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (five in Maputo, four in Niassa, two in Zambezia, one in Cabo Delgado and one in Inhambane), while five new patients were admitted (two in Niassa, and one each in Maputo, Cabo Delgado and Zambezia).

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities fell from 97 on Wednesday to 86 on Thursday. 35 of these patients (40.7 per cent) were in Maputo. There were also 17 patients in Nampula, 14 in Niassa, four in Cabo Delgado, three in Zambezia, three in Matola and two each in Tete, Manica, Sofala, Gaza and Inhambane.

Over the previous 24 hours, 1,366 people were declared to have made a full recovery from Covid-19 (562 in Niassa, 416 in Maputo province, 327 in Inhambane, and 61 in Zambezia). The total number of recoveries now stands at 140,641, or 94.6 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases fell from 7,340 on Wednesday to 6,191 on Thursday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 2,101 (33.9 per cent of the total); Nampula, 1,497; Maputo province, 935; Cabo Delgado, 563; Gaza, 299; Niassa, 275; Zambezia, 263; Inhambane, 187; Manica, 37; Tete, 26; and Sofala, eight.

Source: AIM