Mozambique | COVID-19: First death reported in month – AIM report

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Mozambique | COVID-19: First death reported in month – AIM report

6:10 CAT | 20 Apr 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Monday reported the first death in a month from the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

The victim was an 80 year old woman who died in Maputo city. Prior to this, the last time the Ministry of Health notified a Covid-19 death was on 20 March.

The total Mozambican death toll from Covid-19 is now 2,201.

According to a Monday press release from the Ministry, since the start of the pandemic, 1,306,593 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 240 of them in the previous 24 hours.

238 of these tests gave negative results, while just two people tested positive for the virus. This brings the total number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique to 225,332.

The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the virus) fell from 2.06 per cent on Sunday to 0.83 per cent on Monday.

In the same 24 hour period, no Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, and one new case was admitted, in Tete. Two patients were under medical care in the Covid-19 wards, one in Tete and one in Maputo city. The latter was under intensive care, receiving supplementary oxygen.

The Ministry release reported eight recoveries from Covid-19, all of them in Maputo city. This brought the total number of recoveries to 223,079, which is almost exactly 99 per cent of all cases of Covid-19 ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 fell from 54 on Sunday to 48 on Monday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Cabo Delgado, 13; Nampula, 11; Gaza, nine; Maputo city, six; Manica, three; Inhambane, 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 370 people were vaccinated against Covid-19 (285 in Inhambane and 85 in Tete). The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 13,626,397, which is 89.6 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM