Covid-19: Confirmed cases rise to 39 in Mozambique; recoveries now at 8 – MISAU

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Covid-19: Confirmed cases rise to 39 in Mozambique; recoveries now at 8 – MISAU

4:09 CAT | 19 Apr 2020

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Four new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in the last 24 hours in Mozambique. Added to another new case announced on Saturday, they bring the total number of cases to 39.
Of the total of 39 cases recorded in Mozambique, eight have fully recovered, according to the Ministry of Health.

The number of officially registered cases of infection with the new coronavirus in Mozambique has risen from 35 to 39, the Ministry of Health announced today.

“Of the 85 tests carried out in the last 24 hours, 81 were negative and four people tested positive,” said Rosa Marlene, national director of Public Health, in a briefing held at the Ministry of Health in Maputo.

The new four cases, which are in isolation at home because they have mild symptoms, result from an investigation into the ramifications of a case of infection with the new coronavirus announced on April 2, discovered in Afungi, Cabo Delgado, in the area of the project for gas exploitation in northern Mozambique led by French company Total.

The four new cases, which all had contact with the positive cases in Afungi, are all men: two Mozambican citizens and two foreigners (one South African and one American).

Of the total of 39 cases recorded in Mozambique, eight are already recovered, according to the Ministry of Health.

Meanwhile, on Saturday, the number of registered cases of infection with the new coronavirus in Mozambique had risen from 34 to 35 in the previous 24 hours. “Of the 54 suspected cases tested in the last 24 hours, 53 turned out to be negative and one was positive,” said Rosa Marlene at the Saturday briefing.

The positive case recorded between Friday and Saturday is also a man: a foreign citizen over 20 years of age and it is locally transmitted, added Rosa Marlene.

The national director of public health had announced on Saturday that two more cases had been reported to have recovered in the previous 24 hours.

Only essential works are being carried out in the works of the mega project for gas exploitation led by Total in the north of the country, after the discovery of the cases of infection by the new coronavirus at the site.

“At the moment, work is underway to map the contacts of all the announced cases,” said Rosa Marlene today.

Africa reports a total of 1,055 deaths and an increase in infections from 19,895 cases to 21,096 registered across 52 countries, according to the latest update of the bulletin of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC).

Among African countries that have Portuguese as their official language, Equatorial Guinea leads in number of infections (79), followed by Cape Verde (58 cases and one death), Guinea-Bissau (50) Mozambique (39), Angola (24 infected and two dead) and São Tomé and Príncipe remains without cases, after a first identification of four positive cases that were not confirmed in the second tests.

Globally, the covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 160,000 deaths and infected more than 2.3 million people in 193 countries and territories. More than 518,000 patients are considered cured.

Source: Lusa