Mozambique: 128 new Covid-19 cases, one death and 305 recoveries reported on Thursday – AIM

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Mozambique: 128 new Covid-19 cases, one death and 305 recoveries reported on Thursday – AIM

4:52 CAT | 17 Jun 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Thursday reported a further 128 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

This was the third consecutive day in which the number of new cases diagnosed exceeded 100 (after 118 cases on Wednesday and 151 on Tuesday).

According to a Thursday press release from the Ministry of Health, 71 of the new cases were women and 57 were men. 22 were children under the age of 15, and the oldest of those infected was 80. 117 were Mozambican citizens, and 11 were foreigners (as is normal practice, the release did not disclose their nationalities).

Once again, the vast majority of the new cases – 90.6 per cent – were from the southern provinces (51 from Maputo city, 49 from Maputo province, 12 from Gaza and three from Inhambane). The remaining 11 cases were from the northern province of Cabo Delgado.

Since the start of the pandemic, 1,338,295 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 936 of them in the previous 24 hours. 808 of these tests yielded negative results, and the 128 that tested positive raised the total number of positive cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 226,877.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) rose from 12.18 per cent on Wednesday to 13.68 per cent on Thursday.

Two Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital on Thursday, one in Maputo and one in Manica, but six new cases were admitted (four in Maputo and two in Matola). The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 wards rose from 19 on Wednesday to 22 on Thursday. 14 of these patients were in Maputo, five in Matola, two in Gaza and one in Manica. Seven were in intensive care, receiving supplementary oxygen.

The Ministry release reported one further death from Covid-19. The latest victim was a 56 year old man who died in Maputo city. This brings the total death toll from the disease in Mozambique to 2,209.

305 people were reported to have made a full recovery from Covid-19 on Thursday, 212 of them in Maputo city, 46 in Maputo province, 41 in Gaza and six in Cabo Delgado. The total number of recoveries now stands at 244,161, which is 98.8 per cent of of all cases of Covid-19 ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 fell from 681 on Wednesday to 503 on Thursday. The geographical breakdown of the active cases was as follows: Maputo province, 213; Maputo city, 138; Gaza, 59; Inhambane, 40; Cabo Delgado, 34; Zambezia, six; Nampula, four; Niassa, three; Sofala, three; Manica, two; and Tete, one. Maputo city and province, between them, accounted for 69.8 per cent of the active cases.

The Ministry also reported that in the previous 24 hours a further 8,031 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 14,393,090 – which is 94.6 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM