COVI9-19: Ten more deaths and 829 new cases reported on Wednesday – AIM

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COVI9-19: Ten more deaths and 829 new cases reported on Wednesday – AIM

7:57 CAT | 18 Feb 2021

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The Mozambican health authorities on Wednesday reported a further ten deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease and 829 new cases.

According to a Ministry of Health press release, the latest victims were five men and five women, all Mozambican nationals and aged between 36 and 78. Eight of the deaths occurred in Maputo city, one in Maputo province and one in Zambezia.

This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 561. Of these deaths, the great majority – 458 (81.6 per cent) – have occurred in the capital.

Since the start of the pandemic, 392,060 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 3,783 of them in the previous 24 hours. Of the samples tested, 1,459 were from Maputo city, 495 from Maputo province, 453 from Gaza, 327 from Nampula, 196 from Inhambane, 193 from Sofala, 171 from Tete, 163 from Niassa, 142 from Manica, 107 from Cabo Delgado, and 77 from Zambezia.

2,954 of the tests gave negative results and 829 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This brings the total number of positive cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 52,629. The positivity rate (the proportion of those tested found to be carrying the virus) on Wednesday was 21.9 per cent, considerably lower than Thursday’s rate of 33.2 per cent. On Monday, the rate had been 23 per cent, and on Sunday 33 per cent. No trend can be deduced from these figures.

Of the cases reported on Wednesday, 814 were Mozambican citizens and 15 were foreigners (the Ministry did not reveal their nationalities). 419 were women or girls, and 410 were men or boys. 64 were children under the age of 15, and 57 were over the age of 65. For 17 cases, no age information was available.

Maputo remains at the heart of the Mozambican epidemic. Maputo city reported 357 of the new cases, and Maputo province 104. Thus between them Maputo city and province accounted for 55.6 per cent of Wednesday’s cases. There were also 116 cases from Gaza, 100 from Sofala, 47 from Cabo Delgado, 40 from Inhambane, 22 from Tete, 20 from Manica, 15 from Niassa and eight from Zambezia. Nampula was the only province where no positive cases were reported.

The Ministry release also said that, in the same 24 hour period, 35 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (31 in Maputo, two in Matola, one in Gaza and one in Sofala), but 35 new patients were admitted (22 in Maputo, four in Zambezia, four in Tete, two in Matola, two in Cabo Delgado, and one in Sofala).

As of Wednesday, 279 people were under medical care in the Covid-19 wards (down from 292 on Tuesday). The great majority – 215 (77 per cent) – are in Maputo. There are also 14 patients in Zambezia, 12 in Tete, 11 in Matola, eight in Sofala, six in Nampula, five in Inhambane, three in Cabo Delgado, three in Niassa, one in Manica and one in Gaza. Thus there are Covid-19 patients hospitalised in all 11 of Mozambique’s provinces.

The Ministry reported that a further 595 people have made a full recovery from Covid-19 (336 in Cabo Delgado, 172 in Gaza, 71 in Sofala and 16 in Zambezia). This brings the total number of recoveries to 32,857, which is 62.4 per cent of all those diagnosed in Mozambique with the coronavirus.

With the number of new cases continuing to outstrip the number of recoveries, the number of active Covid-19 cases is inevitably rising. It now stands at 19,207 (up from 18.983 on Tuesday). The geographical distribution of the active cases is as follows: Maputo city, 10,757 (56 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 2,815; Sofala, 2,296; Inhambane, 951; Gaza, 519; Cabo Delgado, 459; Niassa, 366; Tete, 282; Manica, 282; Nampula, 267; and Zambezia, 213.

Source: AIM