Mozambique Covid-19: Positivity rate falling – AIM

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Mozambique Covid-19: Positivity rate falling – AIM

7:45 CAT | 31 Jan 2022

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The Mozambican health authority reported on Saturday that the Covid-19 positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be infected with the disease) has fallen to under five per cent.

The positivity rate rose from 7.51 per cent on Wednesday to 7.63 per cent on Thursday, but then fell to 7.11 per cent on Friday and to 4.78 per cent on Saturday. This was the lowest rate recorded since the 3.75 per cent of 5 December.

According to a Saturday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,122,135 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 2,637 of them in the previous 24 hours.

2,511 of the tests yielded negative results, and 126 tested positive for the virus. This brings the number of positive cases of Covid-19 diagnosed in Mozambique to 223,738.

Of the new cases identified on Saturday, 79 were women and 47 were men. The provinces with the largest number of cases were Maputo city (33 – 26.2 per cent) and Gaza (19 – 15.1 per cent). There were also 17 cases in Inhambane, 17 in Zambezia, 12 in Maputo province, 12 in Cabo Delgado, six in Sofala, five in Niassa, four in Tete and one in Manica. No cases at all were reported from Nampula.

Over the same 24 hour period, 12 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (two each in Niassa, Zambezia, Manica, Sofala and Matola, one in Gaza and one in Maputo), while 13 new cases were admitted (five in Maputo, four in Gaza, two in Manica, one in Niassa and one in Matola).

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres fell from 76 on Friday to 75 on Saturday, 36 of these cases (48 per cent) were in Maputo. There were also 10 in Niassa, five each in Tete, Inhambane and Gaza, four in Manica, three in Nampula, three in Sofala, two in Cabo Delgado, one in Zambezia and one in Matola.

The Ministry reported two further deaths from Covid-19, a 48 year old man and a 53 year old woman. One of the deaths occurred in Maputo city and one in Gaza. This brought the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 2,167.

168 people were declared to have made a full recovery from Covid-19, all of them in Zambezia. This brought the total number of recoveries to 209,564, which is 93.7 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with the disease in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 fell from 12,047 on Friday to 12,003 on Saturday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo province, 5,608 (46.7 percent of the total); Maputo city, 3,902; Zambezia, 550; Inhambane, 425; Niassa, 384; Gaza, 330; Manica, 292; Cabo Delgado, 239; Tete, 173; Nampula, 52; and Sofala, 48.

The release added that, in the previous 24 hours, a further 71,715 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. This brings the total number of people fully vaccinated against the disease to 9,440,098, which is 62.1 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM