Mozambique: Five new Covid-19 cases and 39 recoveries reported on Tuesday – AIM

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Mozambique: Five new Covid-19 cases and 39 recoveries reported on Tuesday – AIM

4:00 CAT | 24 Aug 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Tuesday reported a further five new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease and 39 recoveries.

According to a Tuesday press release from the Ministry of Health, all the new cases were Mozambican citizens. Four of them were women and one was a man. They were aged between 26 and 65.

Three of them were from Maputo city, one from Maputo province and one from Sofala. There were no new cases from any of the other eight provinces.

Since the start of the pandemic, 1,380,032 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 261 of them in the previous 24 hours. 256 of these tests yielded negative results, and the five who tested positive raised the total number of positive cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 230,009.

The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the coronavirus) fell from 2.65 per cent on Monday to 1.92 per cent on Tuesday.

Three Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital on Tuesday, all of them in Niassa, and no new cases were admitted. The number of patients undergoing medical care in the Covid-19 wards fell from 12 on Monday to nine on Tuesday, four of whom were in intensive care and receiving supplementary oxygen.

The Ministry release reported no further deaths from Covid-19 on Tuesday. The total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique thus remained 2,119.

Of the 39 recoveries on Tuesday, 26 were from Tete, eight from Zambezia and five from Inhambane. The total number of recoveries now stands at 227,597, which is 98.95 per cent of all Covid-19 cases ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 fell from 223 on Monday to 189 on Tuesday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 43; Niassa, 31; Zambezia, 28; Gaza, 24; Cabo Delgado, 20; Nampula, 18; Sofala, 15; Tete, six; Manica, three; Maputo province, one. Inhambane was the only province without any active cases.

The Ministry press release also reported that a further 3,039 people were vaccinated against Covid-19 on Tuesday. The total number fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 14,665,329, which is 96.4 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM