Covid-19: China records imported cases from Mozambique, Portugal – Lusa

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Covid-19: China records imported cases from Mozambique, Portugal – Lusa

4:28 CAT | 19 Jan 2021

File photo: Hoje Macau

China on Sunday registered two cases of Covid-19 imported from Portuguese-speaking countries – a man from Mozambique and a woman from Portugal, both Chinese citizens.

The health commission in Guangdong, the Chinese province adjacent to Macau, announced on Sunday that a Chinese citizen who had flown in from Mozambique had tested positive for Covid-19.

In a statement, the commission revealed that the 49-year-old man passed through Malawi, from where he flew to Kenya and finally to Guangzhou on 2 January.

Despite having tested negative for the new coronavirus upon landing in the Guangdong capital, the passenger later tested positive during his isolation period, and was hospitalised in Guangzhou with respiratory problems.

Also on Sunday, the Health Commission of Shaanxi, a province in north-western China, detected three imported Covid-19 cases, one a 42-year-old Chinese woman who flew from Lisbon to Xi’an, the capital of Shaanxi, on January 3.

The woman developed symptoms during quarantine and tested positive for the new coronavirus. She is currently being treated at a provincial hospital.

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 2,031,048 deaths among more than 94.9 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by French press agency AFP.

According to the National Health Commission of China, the country had by Sunday registered 88,336 cases of Covid-19 and 4,635 deaths.

In Portugal, 9,028 people have died from the infection among the 556,503 cases confirmed, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate-General for Health.

According to the African Union’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Kenya is the sixth most affected country in Africa, with 1,731 deaths and 99,162 infected, while in Mozambique, 249 people out of 27,146 confirmed infections have died, according to the Ministry of Health’s Monday (18-01) brief.

The first set of restrictions to combat the Covid-19 outbreak came into force yesterday in Malawi, where cases are emerging, country president Lazarus Chakwera has announced.

So far, Malawi has recorded 12,470 cases and 314 deaths in a population of more than 18 million people. More than 40% of these cases were detected in January alone, with a record number of 685 cases in 24 hours.

Source: Lusa