Mozambique:Ten new Covid-19 cases and one death reported on Tuesday- AIM

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Mozambique:Ten new Covid-19 cases and one death reported on Tuesday- AIM

7:09 CAT | 20 Oct 2021

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The Mozambican health authorities reported on Monday that a further ten people were diagnosed with the coronavírus that causes the Covid-19 respiratory disease in the past 24 hours.

According to a Monday press release from the Health Ministry, since the start of the pandemic, 926,887 people have been tested for the coronavirus, 527 of them in the previous 24 hours.

517 of the tests gave negative results and ten people were found to be carrying the virus. This brings the number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 151,112.

Of the cases diagnosed on Monday, five were men and five were women. There were no children among the cases. Five of the new cases (50 per cent) were from Zambezia province. There were also three cases from Maputo city, one from Niassa and one from Inhambane. No positive cases were reported from any of the other seven provinces.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) on Monday was 1.9 per cent. Rates over the previous few days were 0.7 per cent on Sunday, 1.3 per cent on Saturday, 1.3 per cent on Friday and one per cent on Thursday.

The Ministry reported just one death from Covid-19 on Monday. This victim was a 37 year old Mozambican women who died in Maputo. This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 1,927.

In the same 24 hour period, three Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (two in Maputo and one in Gaza), and four new cases were admitted, all of them in Maputo.

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities remained eight, the same as on Sunday. Four of these patients were in Maputo, two in Niassa, one in Nampula and one in Inhambane.

The Ministry also reported that on Monday 287 people were declared fully recovered from Covid-19 (280 in Maputo city, four in Inhambane and three in Tete). The total number of recoveries now stands at 148,474, or 98.3 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases fell sharply, from 985 on Sunday to 707 on Monday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 298 (42.1 per cent of the total); Nampula, 194; Cabo Delgado, 126; Gaza, 22; Niassa, 20; Zambezia, 18; Inhambane, 16; Maputo province, six; Manica, six; and Tete, one. Sofala remains the only province where there are no active Covid-19 cases,

The Ministry also reported that, over the past 24 hours, a further 2,138 people received their second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19. 1,825,866 people are now completely vaccinated, and 1,973,519 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

Source: AIM