Covid-19: 12 deaths, 677 new cases, and 585 recoveries reported on Friday in Mozambique

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Covid-19: 12 deaths, 677 new cases, and 585 recoveries reported on Friday in Mozambique

12:11 CAT | 21 Feb 2021

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The Ministry release said that, over the same 24 hour period, 16 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (seven in Maputo, four in Tete, two in Cabo Delgado, and one each in Matola, Sofala and Zambezia), but 27 new cases were admitted (24 in Maputo, two in Gaza and one in Sofala).

The Mozambican health authorities on Friday reported a further 12 deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 677 new cases.

According to a Ministry of Health press release, the latest victims were seven men and five women, all of Mozambican nationality, and aged between 49 and 84. Ten of them died in Maputo, one in Gaza and one in Zambezia. Nine of the deaths were declared on Thursday and three on Friday.

This brings Mozambique’s total Covid-19 death toll to 583. The majority of these deaths – 457 (78.4 per cent) have occurred in Maputo city.

Since the start of the pandemic, 398,598 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 2,832 of them in the previous 24 hours. Of the samples tested, 1,181 were from Maputo city, 466 from Maputo province, 390 from Niassa, 223 from Inhambane, 199 from Tete, 169 from Cabo Delgado, 125 from Manica, 39 from Gaza, 22 from Zambezia, 16 from Sofala, and two from Nampula.

2,155 of these tests gave negative results, and 677 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique, since the first case was identified on 22 March last year, to 54,204.

Of the cases reported on Friday, 666 are Mozambican citizens, ten are foreigners (but the Ministry release did not give their nationalities), and in one case, the nationality is yet to be confirmed. 341 were men or boys and 336 were women or girls. 43 were children under the age of 15, and 48 were over 65 years old. For 21 cases, no age information was available.

The positivity rate (the proportion of those tested found to be carrying the virus) among the cases reported on Friday was 23.9 per cent. This is not very different from the rates of the previous six days – Thursday, 24.2 per cent; Wednesday, 21.9 per cent; Tuesday, 33.2 per cent; Monday, 23 per cent, Sunday 33 per cent; Saturday, 24.6 per cent. On two days (Tuesday and Sunday) the positivity rate hit 33 per cent or more, but on the other five days it varied within a band of between 21 and 25 per cent.

Well over half the new cases came from the far south – 275 from Maputo city and 122 from Maputo province. Maputo city and province thus accounted for 58.6 per cent of the cases reported on Friday. There were also 106 cases from Cabo Delgado, 52 from Niassa, 50 from Inhambane, 45 from Tete, 15 from Manica, nine from Zambezia, two from Sofala and one from Gaza. Nampula is the only province where no new cases were reported (but it is also the province with the lowest number of tests reported).

The Ministry release said that, over the same 24 hour period, 16 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (seven in Maputo, four in Tete, two in Cabo Delgado, and one each in Matola, Sofala and Zambezia), but 27 new cases were admitted (24 in Maputo, two in Gaza and one in Sofala).

As of Friday, 272 people were under medical care in the Covid-19 wards (a slight reduction on the 272 reported on Thursday). 219 of these patients (80.5 per cent) were in Maputo. There were also 13 patients in Zambezia, 11 in Matola, seven in Tete, six in Nampula, six in Sofala, five in Inhambane, two in Gaza, and one each in Cabo Delgado, Niassa and Manica.

The Ministry reported that a further 585 people made a full recovery from Covid-19 (386 in Maputo city, 81 in Niassa, 76 in Nampula, and 42 in Sofala). This brings the total number of recoveries to 34,389, or 63.4 per cent of all those diagnosed with the coronavirus in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases continues to climb slowly upwards and had, by Friday, reached 19,228. These cases are distributed as follows: Maputo city, 10,964 (57 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 2,344; Sofala, 2,296; Inhambane, 1,083; Cabo Delgado, 661; Gaza, 573; Niassa, 341; Tete, 317; Manica, 242; Zambezia, 214; and Nampula, 193.

Source: AIM