Mozambique / COVID-19: Vaccination nears the two million mark – AIM

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Mozambique / COVID-19: Vaccination nears the two million mark – AIM

6:10 CAT | 25 Oct 2021

File photo: Folha de Maputo

The Mozambican Health authorities have announced that on Thursday, under the third phase of the national vaccination campaign against Covid-19, 25,420 people were vaccinated.

The largest number of vaccinations were in Tete (4,875), Inhambane (4,432) and Cabo Delgado (4,140).

According to a Ministry of Health Thursday press release, the number of people fully vaccinated, since vaccination began on 8 March, is 1,841,389. The number of people who have received at least one dose of the vaccine is creeping towards the two million mark, and now stands at 1,998,939.

Since the start of the pandemic, 931,130 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,463 of them in the previous 24 hours. 1,446 of those tests gave negative results, and 17 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This brings the total number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique to 151,174.

Nine of the new cases identified on Thursday were women and eight were men. One was a child under five years of age.

Seven of the new cases came from Maputo city and six from the northern province of Cabo Delgado. Niassa, Sofala, Inhambane and Maputo province each reported one case. There were no positive cases reported from the other five provinces.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) on Thursday was 1.2 per cent, somewhat lower than the rates on Wednesday (1.5 per cent) and Tuesday (1.8 per cent).

In the same 24 hour period, three Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (two in Maputo and one in Nampula), and no new cases were admitted.

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities fell from 11 on Wednesday to eight on Thursday. Three of these patients were in Maputo, three in Niassa, one in Manica and one in Inhambane. No Covid-19 patients were hospitalised in the other seven provinces.

The Ministry release also reported that on Thursday 17 people were declared fully recovered from Covid-19, all of them in Niassa. The total number of recoveries now stands at 148,611, or 98.3 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

For the third consecutive day, no deaths from Covid-19 were reported. Thus the death toll from Covid-19 in Mozambique remains 1,927.

The number of active Covid-19 cases was 632 – the same as on Wednesday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 325 (51.4 per cent of the total); Nampula, 199; Cabo Delgado, 56; Inhambane, 19; Gaza, eight; Maputo province, seven; Zambezia, seven; Niassa, five; Manica, three; Sofala, two; and Tete, one.

Source: AIM