Mozambique | COVID-19: Six new cases and no deaths reported on Sunday – AIM

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Mozambique | COVID-19: Six new cases and no deaths reported on Sunday – AIM

5:56 CAT | 18 Apr 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Sunday reported six new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

According to a Sunday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,306,353 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 291 of them in the previous 24 hours.

285 of these tests yielded negative results, and the six positive cases brought the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 225,329.

The new cases identified on Sunday were five women and one man, all Mozambican citizens. The Ministry release did not give their ages. Three cases were diagnosed in Gaza, two in Maputo city and one in Tete.

The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the virus) fell from 2.18 per cent on Saturday to 2.06 per cent on Sunday.

In the same 24 hour period, the two Covid-19 patients who had been hospitalised for weeks in Niassa were discharged. That left two patients under medical care in Maputo city, one of whom is in intensive care, receiving supplementary oxygen. No Covid-19 patients were hospitalised anywhere else in the country.

The Ministry reported no further deaths from the disease on Sunday, and so the Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remained 2,200. The last time a Covid-19 death was reported was on 20 March.

No recoveries were reported on Sunday either, and so the total number of recoveries from Covid-19 remained 223,071, which is slightly more than 99 per cent of all cases of Covid-19 ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 rose from 48 on Saturday to 54 on Sunday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Cabo Delgado, 13; Maputo city, 12; Nampula, 11; Gaza, nine; Inhambane, three; Manica, three; Tete, two; and Zambezia, one. There were no active cases in Niassa, Sofala or Maputo province.

The release also reported that over the previous 24 hours only 428 people were vaccinated against Covid-19 (415 in Inhambane and 13 in Cabo Delgado). The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 13,600,852 – which is 89.4 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM