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he Mozambican health authorities on Saturday reported a further 108 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.
This compares with 98 new cases announced on Friday, 128 on Thursday, and 118 on Wednesday.
A Saturday press release from the Ministry of Health said that 60 of that day’s new cases were women and 48 were men. Eight were children under 15 years of age, and the oldest case was 82 years old. 102 were Mozambican citizens, and six were foreigners (as is normal practice, the release did not disclose their nationalities).
As has become the norm this month, the great majority of the new cases – 94.4 per cent – came from the southern provinces (62 from Maputo city, 22 from Maputo province, 13 from Inhambane and five from Gaza). There were also four cases from Sofala, one from Nampula, and one from Tete.
Since the start of the pandemic, 1,340,102 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 933 of them in the previous 24 hours. 825 of these tests yielded negative results, and the 108 that tested positive raised the total number of positive cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 227,083.
The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) rose slightly from 11.21 per cent on Friday to 11.58 per cent on Saturday.
One Covid-19 patient was discharged from hospital (in Maputo) on Saturday, and three new cases were admitted, also in Maputo. The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 wards rose from 22 on Friday to 24 on Saturday. 16 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 no further deaths from Covid-19 on Saturday, and so the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remained 2,209.
85 people were reported to have made a full recovery – 68 in Maputo province and 17 in Inhambane. The total number of recoveries now stands at 224,306, which is 98.78 per cent of all cases of Covid-19 ever diagnosed in Mozambique.
The number of active cases of Covid-19 rose from 541 on Friday to 564 on Saturday. The geographical distribution of the cases was as follows: Maputo province, 206; Maputo city, 194; Gaza, 63; Inhambane, 39; Cabo Delgado, 37; Sofala, seven; Zambezia, six; Nampula, five; Niassa, three; Tete, two; and Manica, two.
The Ministry also reported that in the previous 24 hours a further 8,316 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The total number of people fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 14,409,461 which is 95 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.
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