Covid-19: Another dismal record for number of cases on Friday in Mozambique – AIM report

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Covid-19: Another dismal record for number of cases on Friday in Mozambique – AIM report

8:00 CAT | 30 Jan 2021

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Mozambique on Friday recorded its highest ever number of cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease in a single 24 hour period – 1,275.

This is a record that keep being broken. The first time the number of new cases in 24 hours passed a thousand was on 20 January, when there were 1,126 cases diagnosed. Last Tuesday, this was surpassed, when 1,274 cases of the disease were diagnosed, and on Friday a new record was set.

A Ministry of Health press release reported a further nine Covid-19 deaths – six men and three women, all Mozambican citizens, and aged between 38 and 74. All the deaths occurred in Maputo city. One death was declared on Tuesday, one on Wednesday, six on Thursday, and one on Friday. This brings Mozambique’s total Covid-19 death toll to 356. 283 (79.5 per cent) of these deaths occurred in the capital.

The Ministry said that, since the start of the pandemic, 338,927 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 4,576 of them in the previous 24 hours. Of the samples tested, 1,740 were from Maputo city, 418 from Zambezia, 409 from Maputo province, 396 from Inhambane, 384 from Niassa, 264 from Cabo Delgado, 235 from Gaza, 220 from Nampula, 214 from Manica, 194 from Sofala, and 102 from Tete,

3,301 of the tests gave negative results and 1,275 people tested positive for the coronavirus. Thus 27.9 per cent of those tested were infected by the virus, compared with positivity rates of 34.7 per cent on Thursday, 28.6 per cent on Wednesday, and 42.8 per cent on Tuesday.

Since the first case was identified on 22 March last year, 37,108 cases of Covid-19 have been diagnosed in Mozambique.

Of the new cases, 1,230 are known to be of Mozambican nationality, 33 are foreigners (but the Ministry did not give their nationalities), and the nationality of 12 others has yet to be confirmed. 660 are men or boys, and 615 are women or girls. 86 are children under the age of 15, and 60 are over 65 years old. In 33 cases, no age information was available.

About half those who tested positive are from the capital and the surrounding area – 590 from Maputo city and 145 from Maputo province. Between them Maputo city and province accounted for 49.8 per cent of the cases reported on Friday. There were also 137 cases from Inhambane, 90 from Sofala, 74 from Zambezia, 66 from Gaza, 58 from Manica, 57 from Niassa, 32 from Nampula, 25 from Tete, and one from Cabo Delgado. Thus at least one Covid-19 case was diagnosed in each of the eleven provinces.

The Ministry reported that, in the same 24 hour period, 18 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (nine in Maputo, five in Tete, two in Manica and two in Sofala), but 28 new cases were admitted (14 in Maputo, six in Tete, three in Manica, two in Sofala, two in Gaza, and one in Cabo Delgado).

There are now 262 people under medical care in the Covid wards. 211 (80.5 per cent) of these patients are in Maputo, 13 in Tete, nine in Sofala, eight in Zambezia, seven in Gaza, six in Matola, three in Manica, two in Inhambane, two in Nampula, and one in Cabo Delgado.

Also on Friday, a further 759 people were declared to be fully recovered from Covid-19 (246 in Gaza, 245 in Maputo province, 85 in Tete, 62 in Maputo city, 50 in Manica, 42 in Nampula, and 29 in Zambezia). This brings the total number of recoveries to 23,559, which is 63.5 per cent of all those diagnosed with the coronavirus in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases has now risen to 13,239, the highest it has ever been. The case are distributed as follows: Maputo city, 7,000 (52.8 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 1,867; Inhambane, 802; Sofala, 730; Manica, 684; Gaza, 635; Niassa, 527; Zambezia, 460; Nampula, 247; Cabo Delgado, 170; Tete, 117.

Source: AIM