Mozambique | Covid-19: 103 new cases and 98 recoveries

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Mozambique | Covid-19: 103 new cases and 98 recoveries

7:34 CAT | 04 Jul 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Friday reported 103 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 98 recoveries.

A Friday press release from the Ministry of Health said that 56 of the new cases were women and 47 were men. They were aged between three and 78. 101 cases were Mozambican citizens and two were foreigners (as is standard practice, their nationalities were not disclosed).

As has become the norm in the past few weeks, the overwhelming majority of new cases were diagnosed in the south of the country. 87.4 per cent came from the southern four provinces (33 from Gaza, 28 from Maputo city, 16 from Inhambane and 13 from Maputo province). There were also five cases from Cabo Delgado, four from Sofala, two from Nampula and two from Zambezia). No positive cases were reported from Niassa, Tete or Manica.

Since the start of the pandemic, 1,349,208 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,043 of them in the previous 24 hours. 940 of these tests yielded negative results, and the 103 that tested positive raised the total number of positive cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 228,022.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) fell from 12.15 per cent on Thursday to 9.88 per cent on Friday.

Two Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital on Friday, one in Maputo and one in Matola, and one new case was admitted, in Maputo. The number of people receiving medical care in the Covid-19 wards fell from eight on Thursday to seven on Friday – six in Maputo and one in Gaza. Four of these patients were in intensive care, receiving supplementary oxygen.

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

Of the 98 recoveries reported on Friday, 73 were from Maputo city, 17 from Sofala and eight from Inhambane. The total number of recoveries now stands at 225,412 which is 98.85 per cent of all cases of the disease ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 rose from 389 on Thursday to 394 on Friday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Inhambane, 84; Maputo province, 78; Gaza, 72; Maputo city, 62; Nampula, 31; Cabo Delgado, 26; Sofala, 21; Tete, 10; Zambezia, six; Niassa, three; and Manica, one.

The Ministry also reported that in the previous 24 hours a further 8,489 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 15.534,265 – which is 95.6 per cent of all those aged 18 and older.

Source: AIM