Covid-19 | Mozambique Six new cases, one death and no recoveries reported on Thursday – AIM

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Covid-19 | Mozambique Six new cases, one death and no recoveries reported on Thursday – AIM

5:06 CAT | 18 Mar 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Thursday reported a further six cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and no recoveries from the disease.

According to a Thursday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,287,004 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 925 of them in the previous 24 hours.

919 of the tests gave negative results, and the six positive cases raised the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 225,200.

Five of the new cases identified on Thursday were women and one was a man. Four were diagnosed in Gaza province, one in Tete and one in Maputo city. No positive cases were reported from the other eight provinces.

The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the virus) fell from 0.71 per cent on Wednesday to 0.65 per cent on Thursday.

After eight days in which there were no known deaths from Covid-19, the Ministry reported that a 53 year old man succumbed to the disease in Maputo city. This brings the total death toll from Covid-19 in Mozambique to 2,199.

Over the same 24 hour period, six Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, all of them in Maputo. No new patients were admitted.

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres fell from 12 on Wednesday to just five on Thursday. Three of these patients were in Maputo, one in Niassa and one in Tete. Two of these patients were in intensive care and receiving supplementary oxygen.

The total number of active Covid-19 cases rose from 83 on Wednesday to 88 on Thursday. The geographical breakdown of the active cases was as follows: Niassa, 22; Maputo city, 17; Zambezia, 15; Gaza, nine; Tete, eight; Maputo province, seven; Cabo Delgado, five; Inhambane, three; and Nampula, two. There were no active cases in either Manica or Sofala.

The Ministry release also reported that, over the previous 24 hours, a further 74,467 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of those fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 12,726,790 – which is 83.7 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM