Another young patient dies of Covid-19 in Mozambique – @Verdade

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Another young patient dies of Covid-19 in Mozambique – @Verdade

3:25 CAT | 26 Oct 2020

File photo: A Verdade

Another young patient has died of Covid-19 in Mozambique after being in hospital care for two weeks. On Sunday (25-10), almost a hundred new infections were reported, bringing to 11,986 the cumulative number of positive cases in the country.

“We regret the registration of a death of a patient infected with the new coronavirus in the city of Maputo, a 25-year-old male of Mozambican nationality who died after his clinical condition worsened while in a hospital unit in the city of Maputo. The case was notified on 11 October and the death was declared on 24 October,” the Ministry of Health (MISAU) reports.

This was the sixth patient in the 20 to 29-year-old age group to die of the virus in Mozambique.

Mozambique cumulative death-toll rose to 86 yesterday, 66 of which were registered Maputo (city).

The MISAU bulletin indicates that, between Saturday and Sunday, 91 more patients were diagnosed with the new coronavirus, all of them local transmissions. Of the new cases announced yesterday, 88 are Mozambicans, one is Indian, one is Bengali and one is British.

The city of Maputo continues to lead, with 5, 863 positive cases detected so far, of which 56 were reported yesterday, and with 49 individuals under hospital care.

In Maputo province, the total number of cases registered so far has increased to 2,110, including the 15 newly diagnosed patients reported yesterday.

In Cabo Delgado province, new foci broke out over the past week, and the total increased to 784 after 14 more positive cases were reported on Sunday.

Yesterday, three new cases were reported in Gaza province, two in Nampula, one in Niassa and one in the province of Zambezia.

The positive cases reported yesterday resulted from 1,986 tests performed across the country in the National Health System and by private laboratories.

MISAU also reports that nine more people have fully recovered from Covid-19, bringing the total number of recoveries to 9,253.

Currently, the country has 2,643 active cases of the new coronavirus.

Mozambique: One more death, and 91 new Covid-19 cases – AIM report

The Mozambican health authorities on Sunday reported a further death from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and a further 91 cases.

According to a Ministry of Health press release, the latest victim was a 25 year old Mozambican man hospitalised in Maputo. He was diagnosed with the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 on 11 October. His condition did not improve, and he died on Saturday. This brings the total known Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 86.

The Ministry said that, since the first case was diagnosed, on 22 March, 180,557 people have been tested for the coronavirus, 1,996 of them in the previous 24 hours.

896 of the tests were administered at public facilities, and 1,100 in private laboratories. Of the total number of samples tested, 700 were from Maputo city, 558 from Cabo Delgado, 226 from Sofala, 148 from Maputo province, 114 from Nampula, 104 from Tete, 81 from Zambezia, 22 from Inhambane, 17 from Gaza, 17 from Manica and nine from Niassa.

1,905 of the tests gave negative results, and 91 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This brings the total number of positive cases, since the start of the pandemic, to 11,986. 88 of the new cases are Mozambican, one is Indian, one Bangladeshi and one British. 50 are men or boys and 41 are women or girls. Nine are children under the age of 15, and three are over 65 years old. No age information was available for eight cases.

56 of the cases were from Maputo city and 14 from Maputo province. Maputo city and province thus accounted for 77 per cent of the new cases. There were also 14 cases from Cabo Delgado, three from Gaza, two from Nampula, one from Niassa and one from Zambezia.

In line with standard Ministry of Health procedure, all 91 new cases are now in home isolation, and their contacts are being traced.

The Ministry release added that, in the same 24 hour period, ten Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, but three new patients were admitted. This brought the number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 isolation wards down to 53 (49 in Maputo, three in Matola and one in Zambezia).

The release added that a further nine people have made a full recovery from Covid-19, all of them from Inhambane. The total number of recoveries now stands at 9,253 (77.2 per cent of all those who have tested positive for the coronavirus).

As of Sunday, the geographical distribution of all the 11,986 positive cases was as follows: Maputo city, 5,863; Maputo province, 2.110; Zambezia, 790; Cabo Delgado, 784; Nampula, 604; Tete, 402; Gaza, 401; Sofala, 367; Inhambane, 283; Niassa, 249; Manica, 133.

There are 2,643 active cases, concentrated overwhelmingly in Maputo city and province. Their breakdown is as follows: Maputo city, 1,908; Maputo province, 434; Sofala, 78; Cabo Delgado, 67; Gaza, 49; Tete, 28; Manica, 24; Niassa, 23; Nampula, 18; Inhambane, eight; Zambezia, six.

Source: A Verdade / Lusa / AIM