COVID-19: 93 new cases and 140 recoveries reported on Wednesday

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COVID-19: 93 new cases and 140 recoveries reported on Wednesday

7:50 CAT | 01 Jul 2022

The Mozambican health authorities on Wednesday reported a further 93 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 140 recoveries.

According to a Wednesday press release from the Ministry of Health, 57 of the new cases were women and 36 were men. 91 were Mozambican citizens and two were foreigners (as is normal practice, their nationalities were not disclosed). Eight cases were children under the age of 15, including a one year old infant. The oldest case was 73 years old.

Most of the cases – 78.5 per cent – were from the southern four provinces (37 from Maputo city, 17 from Gaza, 12 from Inhambane and seven from Maputo province). But there were also 11 cases from Sofala, five from Nampula, three from Zambezia and one from Manica.

Since the start of the pandemic, 1,347,342 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,147 of them in the previous 24 hours. 1,054 of these tests yielded negative results, and the 93 that tested positive raised the total number of positive cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 227,819.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) rose from 7.8 per cent on Tuesday to 8.11 per cent on Wednesday.

Five Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital on Wednesday, four from Matola and one from Maputo, and no new cases were admitted. The number of people receiving medical care in the Covid-19 wards fell from 13 on Tuesday to nine on Wednesday– seven in Maputo, one in Matola and one in Gaza. Three of these patients were in intensive care, receiving supplementary oxygen.

No deaths from Covid-19 were reported on Wednesday, and so the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remained 2,212.

140 people were declared to have made a full recovery from Covid-19 on Wednesday, 69 in Maputo city, 46 in Maputo province, 19 in Inhambane, and six in Cabo Delgado. The total number of recoveries now stands at 225,233 which is 98.86 per cent of all cases of the disease ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 fell from 417 on Tuesday to 370 on Wednesday. The geographical distribution of the cases was as follows: Maputo province, 88; Maputo city, 80; Gaza, 61; Inhambane, 50; Sofala, 30; Nampula, 21; Cabo Delgado, 18; Zambezia, nine; Tete, nine; Niassa, three; and Manica, one.

The Ministry also reported that in the previous 24 hours a further 10,101 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. To date, 14,513,278 people have been fully vaccinated against the disease. This is 95.4 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

(AIM)