Covid-19: 2,975 new cases, 11 deaths and 887 recoveries

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Covid-19: 2,975 new cases, 11 deaths and 887 recoveries

3:13 CAT | 05 Jan 2022

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The number of new cases in Mozambique of the Covid-19 respiratory disease rose again on Tuesday, after two days when the number of new cases had fallen to below 1,000.

According to a Tuesday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,115,978 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 7,178 of them in the previous 24 hours.

4,203 of the tests yielded negative results, while 2.975 people tested positive for the virus. This brings the total number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique to 196,346.

Of the cases reported on Tuesday, 1,579 were women and 1,391 were men. 361 cases were children under the age of 15.

Slightly more than half (50.7 per cent) of the new cases came from the four provinces south of the Save river (484 from Maputo city, 418 from Maputo province, 351 from Inhambane and 258 from Gaza).

There were also 340 cases from Zambezia, 297 from Sofala, 219 from Nampula, 166 from Tete, 158 from Cabo Delgado, 145 from Manica, and 139 from Niassa. Thus over 100 new cases were reported from all the provinces.

Over the same 24 hour period, 39 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (16 in Maputo, six in Sofala, five in Matola, four in Niassa, and two each in Inhambane, Gaza, Zambezia and Cabo Delgado), while 45 new cases were admitted (24 in Maputo, five in Niassa, four in Zambezia, three each in Manica, Inhambane and Gaza, and one each in Matola, Tete and Sofala).

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres fell from 201 on Monday to 195 on Tuesday. 120 of these patients (61.5 per cent) were in Maputo. There were also 16 patients in Manica, 15 in Inhambane, 13 in Sofala, 12 in Zambezia, seven in Gaza, seven in Niassa, four in Matola and one in Cabo Delgado. Tete and Nampula remained the only provinces where no covid-19 patients were hospitalised.

The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the virus) fell from 45.76 per cent on Monday to 41.45 per cent.

The Health Ministry reported a further 11 deaths from Covid-19. These latest victims were ten women and one man, aged between 22 and 93. Six of the deaths occurred in Maputo city, two in Maputo province, one in Gaza, one in Inhambane and one in Tete. This brought the total Mozambican death toll from Covid-19 to 2,042.

The Ministry release also reported the full recovery of 887 people from Covid-19 (365 in Inhambane, 351 in Maputo province, 149 in Sofala, and 22 in Zambezia). The total number of recoveries now stands at 159,567, which is 82.5 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 rose from 32,656 on Monday to 34,733 on Tuesday. The geographical break down of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 7,780 (22.4 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 7,626; Gaza, 3,844; Inhambane, 3,650; Manica, 2,833; Sofala, 2,700; Cabo Delgado, 1,791; Nampula, 1,560; Zambezia, 1,448; Tete, 887; and Niassa, 614.

After a break for the New Year holiday, the National Vaccination Campaign has resumed. The Ministry reported that, over the previous 24 hours, 136,671 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. To date, 6,750.670 people have been fully vaccinated against the disease, and 9,195,386 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

Source: AIM