Coronavirus cases in Mozambique surpass 500

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Coronavirus cases in Mozambique surpass 500

8:00 CAT | 12 Jun 2020

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Mozambique recorded, in the last 24 hours, 20 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the total number of infected with the new coronavirus from 489 to 509 and maintaining two deaths, the Ministry of Health announced on Friday (June 12)..

“The new cases reported today include 18 Mozambican individuals and two foreigners,” said Ilesh Jani, director general of the National Institute of Health (INS), in the update of data on the pandemic at the Ministry of Health in Maputo.

The 20 new patients, two of whom are under 15 years of age, were registered in the provinces of Maputo (01), Nampula (08), Niassa (01), Cabo Delgado (01), Inhambane (01) and the city of Maputo (08 ).

“Of the 20 new cases, 14 are male and six female. They are in isolation at home and the mapping of the contact network of these people is currently underway,” he added.

@SaudeMisau actualiza que entre quinta (11) e sexta (12) foram realizados +864 testes a casos suspeitos do novo #coronavirusMOZ 20 amostras revelaram se positivas para o #covid19 elevando o cumulativo para 509 infectados em #Moçambique

— Verdade Democracia (@DemocraciaMZ) June 12, 2020

Of the 509 cases so far registered in Mozambique, 459 are of local transmission and 50 are imported, with two dead.

Three patients are hospitalised in Nampula province, the first “community transmission” site, according to the authorities.

The Ministry of Health also indicated that 145 people have fully recovered.

The provinces of Nampula, Cabo Delgado and the city of Maputo lead with the highest number of active cases in the country, with 153, 83 and 41, respectively, with the rest being distributed across the country.

Since the announcement of the first case in Mozambique, on March 22, 16,919 tests have been performed in the country and about 18,000 people out of the more than 980,000 screened have been quarantined.

A total of 2,139 persons continue to be monitored by the Mozambican health authorities.

In Africa, there are 5,756 confirmed deaths and more than 216,000 infected in 54 countries, according to the latest pandemic statistics on that continent.

Among African countries that have Portuguese as their official language, Guinea-Bissau leads in number of infections (1,389 cases and 12 deaths), followed by Equatorial Guinea (1,306 cases and 12 deaths), Cape Verde (657 cases and six deaths) , São Tomé and Príncipe (632 cases and 12 dead), Mozambique (509 cases and two deaths) and Angola (118 infected and five deaths).

Brazil is the Portuguese-speaking country most affected by the pandemic and one of the hardest hit in the world, the second in number of cases (more than 802 thousand) after the United States) and the third inn number of deaths (40,919, after the United States and thee UK).

The Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 418,000 lives and infected more than 7.4 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.

Source: Lusa