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The Mozambican health authorities on Sunday reported a further 50 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 15 recoveries.
According to a Sunday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,249,540 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,088 of them in the previous 24 hours.
1,038 of the tests yielded negative results. Of the 50 positive cases, 29 were women and 21 were men. The great majority of the new cases reported on Sunday – 42 (84 per cent) – were from the northern province of Cabo Delgado. There were also four cases from Maputo city, two from Sofala and two from Nampula. No positive cases were reported from the other seven provinces.
The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be infected with the virus) rose from 2.26 per cent on Saturday to 4.6 per cent on Sunday.
Over the same 24 hour period, three Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (one in Maputo, one in Niassa and one in Manica). For the second consecutive day, no new patients were admitted.
The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment wards fell from 18 on Saturday to 15 on Sunday. Eight of these patients (53.3 per cent) were in Maputo, with two each in Nampula, Manica and Gaza, and one in Zambezia. No Covid-19 patients were hospitalised in any of the other six provinces.
No deaths from Covid-19 were reported on Sunday. Thus the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remains 2,189.
Of the 15 recoveries, 10 were from Inhambane and five from Zambezia. This brings the total number of recoveries to 218,878, which is 97.4 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.
The number of active cases of Covid-19 rose from 4,197 on Saturday to 4,232 on Sunday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 3,452 (81.6 per cent of the total); Cabo Delgado, 215; Maputo province, 171; Niassa, 140; Tete, 85; Manica, 60; Nampula, 36; Zambezia, 35; Gaza, 21; Sofala, nine; and Inhambane, eight.
The Ministry also reported that, in the previous 24 hours, a further 6,936 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of those fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 10,244,461. This is 67.4 per cent of all citizens aged 18 years and above.
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