Mozambique: Only two new Covid-19 cases reported on Monday – AIM

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Mozambique: Only two new Covid-19 cases reported on Monday – AIM

4:06 CAT | 12 Jul 2022

The Mozambican health authorities on Monday reported only two new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

According to a Monday press release from the Ministry of Health, both new cases were Mozambican males – one was a baby less than a year old, and the other was a 26 year old man. One was from Maputo city and the other from Cabo Delgado.

Since the start of the pandemic, 1,355,886 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 139 of them in the previous 24 hours. 137 of these tests yielded negative results, and the two who tested positive raised the total number of positive cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 228,679.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) rose from 8.91 per cent on Saturday to 14.39 per cent on Sunday, then fell back to only 1.44 per cent on Monday.

Two Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital on Monday, both in Niassa province, and no new cases were admitted. Seven patients were under medical care in the Covid-19 wards – three in Maputo city, and one each in Cabo Delgado, Zambezia, Sofala and Inhambane. None of them were in intensive care.

No further deaths from Covid-19 were reported on Sunday or Monday, and so the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remains 2,213.

71 people were declared on Monday to have made a full recovery from Covid-19 (44 in Maputo province, 11 in Cabo Delgado, 10 in Sofala, and six in Inhambane). The total number of recoveries rose to 225,961, which is 98.81 per cent of all cases of Covid-19 ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 rose from 532 on Saturday to 570 on Sunday, and fell back to 501 on Monday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Gaza, 124; Inhambane, 96; Maputo city, 79; Cabo Delgado, 56; Nampula, 43; Sofala, 37; Zambezia, 22; Niassa, 19; Tete, 16; Maputo province, seven; and Manica, two.

The Ministry also reported that, in the previous 24 hours, a further 2,160 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 14,578,984. This is 95.9 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM