Covid-19: 2,047 recoveries, 1,752 new cases, and four more deaths reported on Thursday – AIM

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Covid-19: 2,047 recoveries, 1,752 new cases, and four more deaths reported on Thursday – AIM

7:28 CAT | 14 Jan 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Thursday, for the fifth consecutive day, announced more recoveries from the Covid-19 respiratory disease than new cases.

According to a Thursday press release from the Health Ministry, over the previous 24 hours, 2,047 people were declared to have made a full recovery from Covid-19 (1,010 in Cabo Delgado, 463 in Maputo province, 438 in Sofala, 96 from Maputo city, and 40 from Zambezia). The total number of recoveries now stands at 177,608, which is slightly more than 82 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

Since the start of the pandemic, 1,171,578 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 6,036 of them in the previous 24 hours. 4,284 of these tests yielded negative results, while 1,752 people tested positive for the virus. This brings the number of confirmed coronavirus infections in Mozambique to 216,559.

Of Thursday’s new cases, according to the Ministry release, 933 were women and 797 were men. This adds up to 1,730, not 1,752 cases. The release does not explain the discrepancy – but on previous days similar anomalies resulted from local officials failing to record the sex of all those tested.

The largest number of new cases were from Maputo city (346 – 19.7 per cent) and from Zambezia (221 – 12.6 per cent). There were also 212 cases from Inhambane, 186 from Maputo province, 182 from Nampula, 152 from Sofala, 109 from Tete, 105 from Gaza, 88 from Niassa, 82 from Cabo Delgado, and 69 from Manica.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) fell from 32.12 per cent on Wednesday to 29.03 per cent on Thursday.

Over the same 24 hour period, 27 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (17 in Maputo, five in Gaza, two in Sofala, two in Inhambane and one in Matola), while 23 new cases were admitted (eight in Maputo, six in Nampula, three in Niassa, two in Tete, two in Manica, one in Matola and one in Inhambane).

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres fell from 212 on Wednesday to 204 on Thursday. 97 of these patients (47.5 per cent) were in Maputo. There were also 23 in Nampula, 20 in Manica, 12 in Matola, ten each in Niassa, Sofala and Gaza, nine in Tete, seven in Inhambane and six in Zambezia. Cabo Delgado remained the only province where no Covid-19 patients were hospitalised.

The Ministry also reported a further four deaths from Covid-19. These latest victims were three women and one man, aged between eight and 76 years. The four deaths occurred in Maputo city, Maputo province, Inhambane and Sofala. This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 2,109.

The number of active Covid-19 cases fell from 37,137 on Wednesday to 36,838 on Thursday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo province, 8,494 (23.1 per cent of the total); Maputo city, 7,798; Inhambane, 4,017; Manica, 3,426; Nampula, 2,422; Zambezia, 2,286; Gaza, 2,224; Sofala, 2,057; Niassa, 1,764; Tete, 1,196; and Cabo Delgado, 1,154.

The release also reported that, over the previous 24 hours, a further 153,065 people had been vaccinated against Covid-19. This brings the number fully vaccinated against the disease to 7,926,268, while 9,997,645 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

Source: AIM