Covid-19: 29 more cases bring cumulative total to 1,536 infections – Mozambique

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Covid-19: 29 more cases bring cumulative total to 1,536 infections – Mozambique

2:56 CAT | 22 Jul 2020

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Of the new suspected cases tested between Monday and Tuesday (July 21), 837 came back negative and 29 positive for Covid-19.Over the same period, one more person recovered from Covid-19.

Mozambique recorded, between Monday and Tuesday, 29 more cases of Covid-19 infection, bringing to 1,536, with 11 deaths, the total number of positive cases registered, the Ministry of Health announced yesterday.

“The new cases reported today include 25 individuals of Mozambican nationality and four foreign individuals,” a Ministry of Health statement distributed to the media on Tuesday reads.

The new cases include a five-year-old child registered in Maputo province, plus cases from Niassa (07), Nampula (07), Tete (01), Manica (02), Gaza (02) and Maputo city (09). Of these, 26 were adjudged cases of local transmission, and three imported.

Of the cases registered in Mozambique overall, 1,380 are locally transmitted and 156 are imported, while 506 people are reported to have made a full recovery.

The country had by Tuesday 1,017 active cases of Covid-19, distributed as follows: Niassa province – 19; Cabo Delgado – 208; Nampula – 229; Zambezia – 28; Tete – 28; Manica – 21; Sofala – 21; Inhambane – 39; Gaza – 50; Maputo province – 191; and Maputo city – 183.

Mozambique’s two northern provinces have the highest number of active cases, namely Nampula with 229 infected, and Cabo Delgado with 208. The Mozambican capital and the province of Maputo follow them, with 183 and 191 active cases respectively, the remaining provinces sharing fewer than 55 cases.

Since the announcement on March 22 of Mozambique’s first case of Covid-19, the country has carried out 48,653 tests of suspected cases, and tracked more than one million individuals.

Of these, 23,265 people suspected of Covid-19 infection have been placed in obligatory home quarantine, and 2,980 continue to be monitored by health authorities.

Mozambique has been in a state of emergency since April 1.

The Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 606,000 lives and infected more than 14.5 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French AFP press agency.