Covid-19: Administration of booster doses of vaccines begins

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Covid-19: Administration of booster doses of vaccines begins

8:28 CAT | 21 Jan 2022

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The Mozambican Health Ministry has begun, as of Thursday, to administer booster doses of the vaccine against Covid-19 to priority population groups.

According to a Thursday press release from the Ministry, those groups are: health professionals; residents of old people’s homes; pregnant women; and people whose immune systems are compromised.

The release added that, in the previous 24 hours, a further 103,471 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. This brings the total number of people fully vaccinated to 8.754,135 – which is 57.6 per cent of the government’s target of all citizens aged 18 and above.

The highest vaccination rates are in Nampula (84.4 per cent), Manica (64.1 per cent); Cabo Delgado (63.4 per cent); and Gaza (60.3 per cent). Lagging behind are Maputo province (41.8 per cent) and Sofala (35.5 per cent).

The Ministry release said that, in the same period, 2,221 people were declared fully recovered from Covid-19 (968 in Manica, 638 in Sofala, 394 in Maputo city, 128 in Zambezia and 93 in Cabo Delgado). This brings the total number of recoveries to 196,850, which is 88.9 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

Since the start of the pandemic, 1,195,950 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19. 3,745 of these tests gave negative results, while 524 people tested positive for the virus. The number of cases of Covid-19 detected in Mozambique now stands at 221,432.

The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the virus) fell from 17.66 per cent on Wednesday to 12.27 per cent on Thursday.

Of the new cases identified on Thursday, 279 were women and 245 were men. 60 were under the age of 15. The province with by far the largest number of new cases was Maputo city (109 cases – 20.8 per cent). There were also 75 cases from Maputo city, 61 from Gaza, 54 from Zambezia, 50 from Sofala, 48 from Manica, 45 from Niassa, 26 from Cabo Delgado, 21 from Tete, 20 from Nampula, and 15 from Inhambane.

Over the same 24 hour period, 25 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (seven in Maputo, six in Niassa, six in Manica, two in Gaza, two in Zambezia, one in Nampula and one in Tete), while 22 new cases were admitted (13 in Maputo, three in Zambezia, two in Tete, two in Manica, one in Niassa and one in Gaza),

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres fell from 140 on Wednesday to 131 on Thursday. 67 of these patients (51.1 per cent) were in Maputo. There were also 10 patients in Nampula, 10 in Manica, nine in Niassa, eight in Inhambane, six each in Tete, Gaza and Matola, five in Zambezia, three in Sofala, and one in Cabo Delgado.

The Ministry reported a further six deaths from Covid-19 – four men and two women aged between 24 and 56. Two of the deaths occurred in Maputo, two in Tete, one in Manica and one in Gaza. This brought the total death toll from Covid-19 in Mozambique to 2,146.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 fell from 24.135 on Wednesday to 22,432 on Thursday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo province, 6,958 (31 per cent of the total); Maputo city, 5,747; Niassa, 1,702; Zambezia, 1,486; Inhambane, 1,465; Gaza, 1,442; Manica, 1,427; Cabo Delgado, 779; Nampula, 732; and Tete, 694. Sofala was the only province with no active Covid-19 cases.

Source: AIM