Mozambique: 66 new Covid-19 cases, 45 recoveries and no deaths reported on Saturday – AIM

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Mozambique: 66 new Covid-19 cases, 45 recoveries and no deaths reported on Saturday – AIM

5:20 CAT | 25 Jul 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Saturday reported a further 66 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease and 45 recoveries.

According to a Saturday press release from the Ministry of Health, 40 of the new cases were women and 26 were men. Ten were children under the age of 15, one of whom was a newborn infant. The oldest of the new patients was 76.

13 of the new cases were from Sofala, with ten each from Zambezia, Inhambane and Gaza. There were nine cases from Cabo Delgado, eight from Maputo city, four from Tete, one from Nampula and one from Maputo province. Only Niassa and Manica reported no new cases.

Since the start of the pandemic, 1,363,738 people had been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 666 of them in the previous 24 hours. 600 of these tests yielded negative results, and the 66 who tested positive raised the total number of positive cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 229,351.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) fell from 9.68 per cent on Thursday to 6.21 per cent on Friday, and then rose again to 9.91 per cent on Saturday.

No Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital on Saturday, but one new case was admitted in Maputo. The number of patients under medical care in the Covid-19 wards rose from nine on Friday to 10 on Saturday. Four of these patients were in Niassa, with one each in Cabo Delgado, Zambezia, Manica, Sofala, Inhambane and Maputo. None of these patients were in intensive care.

No further deaths were reported on either Friday or Saturday, and so the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remained 2,215.

Of the 45 recoveries, 35 were from Sofala and 10 from Zambezia. The total number of recoveries rose to 226,700, which is 98.84 per cent of all cases of Covid-19 ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 fell from 478 on Thursday to 411 on Friday, rising to 432 on Saturday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Sofala, 81; Zambezia, 78; Gaza, 74; Maputo city, 45; Nampula, 38; Inhambane, 37; Tete, 28; Cabo Delgado, 26; Niassa, 13; Maputo province, eight; and Manica, four.

The Ministry release also reported that, over the previous 24 hours, 1,765 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 14,597,414. This is 96 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM