Covid-19: 892 recoveries, 798 new cases and 13 deaths reported on Saturday in Mozambique- AIM report

Login

Register

http://www.clubofmozambique.com/

Covid-19: 892 recoveries, 798 new cases and 13 deaths reported on Saturday in Mozambique- AIM report

7:45 CAT | 15 Feb 2021

Picture: Wikimedia Commons

For the second consecutive day, on Friday more people in Mozambique were declared recovered from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, than new cases were diagnosed, thus ensuring a slight drop in the number of active cases.

According to a Health Ministry press release, 892 people made a full recovery – 304 in Maputo city, 289 in Gaza, 186 in Tete and 113 in Nampula. This brings the total number of recoveries to 31,016, which is 63.8 per cent of all those diagnosed in Mozambique since the start of the pandemic.

The Ministry also reported a further 13 deaths from Covid-19. The latest victims were 11 men and two women, aged between 17 and 81. 12 were Mozambicans and one was a foreigner (whose nationality the release did not reveal). 11 of the deaths occurred in Maputo, one in Cabo Delgado and one in Sofala.

The total number of Covid-19 deaths in Mozambique now stands at 514. The great majority – 401 (78 per cent) – have occurred in Maputo city.

A total of 377,127 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 2,607 of them in the previous 24 hours. All these tests were undertaken at public facilities and none in private laboratories.

798 of those tested were positive for the coronavirus. Thus the positivity rate (the proportion of those tested who are found to be carrying the virus) was 30.6 per cent. The total number of people diagnosed as positive in Mozambique now stands at 48,588.

Of the cases reported on Friday, 795 are known to be Mozambican citizens, two are foreigners (whose nationality the Ministry did not reveal), and the nationality of one has yet to be confirmed.

Between them, Maputo city (with 231 cases) and Maputo province (with 52) accounted for 35.5 per cent of the new cases. There were also 122 cases from Gaza, 103 from Inhambane, 92 from Tete, 71 from Niassa, 59 from Manica, 37 from Cabo Delgado, 25 from Sofala, five from Nampula and one from Zambezia.

Over the same 24 hour period, 30 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, but 41 new cases were admitted. As of Friday 288 people were under medical care in the Covid-19 wards (down from 290 on Thursday). 220 of these (76.4 per cent) are in Maputo. There are also 14 patients in Zambezia, 14 in Matola, 13 in Sofala, eight in Inhambane, seven in Tete, five in Cabo Delgado, three in Niassa, three in Gaza, and one in Manica. Nampula remains the only province where no Covid-19 patients are hospitalised.

The number of active Covid-19 cases has fallen slightly to 17,054 (down from 17,161 on Thursday). The geographical distribution of the cases is as follows: Maputo city, 9,571 (56.1 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 2,541; Sofala, 1,961; Cabo Delgado, 586; Inhambane, 571; Niassa, 430; Gaza, 361; Manica, 345; Tete, 275; Nampula, 258; and Zambezia, 155.

Source: AIM