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3:35 CAT | 10 Aug 2020
Mozambique’s Ministry of Health on Sunday (August 9) reported 28 more Covid-19 cases, bringing the total to 2,269, still with 16 fatalities.
“All 28 new cases reported today are of Mozambican nationality and are locally transmitted,” a note from the Ministry of Health reads. “Of the new cases, 16 are male and 11 female.”
The 28 new cases have been confirmed in the provinces of Maputo (six), Cabo Delgado (two), Niassa (one), Nampula (one), Sofala (10) and Maputo city (eight).
Of the 2,269 cases already registered, 2,087 are accounted locally transmitted and 182 imported, with 840 people recovered, 55 hospitalised and 16 deaths.
The majority of active cases are currently in the city and province of Maputo, with 433 and 298 people infected respectively, followed by Cabo Delgado with 249, and Nampula with 210 cases.
The remaining seven provinces in the country have registered fewer than 70 cases.
Mozambique, which has living under a state of emergency for the last four months, has carried out 68,686 Covid-19 tests since the announcement of the first case on March 22, and has screened more than 1.6 million people.
A total of 26,791 people suspected of infection were placed in home quarantine, and 3,840 continue being monitored by health authorities.
Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi on Wednesday decreed a new 30-day state of emergency starting on Saturday, foreseeing during this period the phased restart of the country’s economic activities from 18 August on.
Source: Lusa
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