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Covid-19: China reports imported cases from Mozambique – Lusa

2:10 CAT | 16 Mar 2021

FILE - A worker disinfects the corridor of a hotel used for health checks in Shenzhen. [File photo: Xinhua]

The Chinese city of Shenzhen has registered an imported case of Covid-19 – a Chinese citizen arriving from Mozambique last Saturday.

According to the Shenzhen Municipal Health Commission, the city adjacent to Hong Kong has detected three imported Covid-19 cases.

In a statement released on Sunday, the commission revealed that one case involved a Chinese man who flew to Shenzhen from Mozambique and tested positive for the new coronavirus during his compulsory quarantine period. He is currently being treated in a hospital, and is in a stable condition.

The neighbouring city of Foshan registered another case of imported Covid-19 on March 10, again a Chinese citizen arriving from Mozambique, the Health Commission of Guangdong, the mainland province adjacent to Macau, announced at the time.

On the same day, the Sichuan Provincial Health Commission in southwest China had announced another case of Covid-19 imported from Mozambique – that of a man who had passed through Nepal, from where he flew to Sichuan capital, Chengdu.

In just two days, Chengdu had recorded three cases of Covid-19 imported from Mozambique.

The Covid-19 pandemic has so far caused at least 2,654,089 deaths worldwide among the more than 119.7 million cases of infection, according to a report by the French AFP press agency.

Mozambique has registered a cumulative total of 729 fatalities among its 64.642 Covid-19 cases, the Ministry of Health announced on Monday [March 15]. The number of imported cases in Mozambique remains at 316, the same number for several weeks now.

The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.

Source: Lusa