COVID-19: Eight new cases and no deaths reported on Saturday – AIM

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COVID-19: Eight new cases and no deaths reported on Saturday – AIM

7:45 CAT | 14 Mar 2022

File photo: Lusa

The Mozambican health authorities on Saturday reported a further eight new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

According to Saturday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,283,428 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,221 of them in the previous 24 hours.

1,213 of these tests yielded negative results. The eight positive cases brought the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 225,173.

The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the virus) rose from 0.3 per cent on Friday to 0.66 per cent on Saturday.

Of the new cases diagnosed on Saturday, four were men and four were women. Three were from Maputo city, three from Gaza, one from Maputo province and one from Sofala.

Over the same 24 hour period, two Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, both in Maputo. No new cases were admitted to hospitals anywhere in the country. The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 wards fell from 16 on Friday to 14 on Saturday, five of whom were receiving supplementary oxygen.

11 of these patients (78.6 per cent) were in Maputo, two were in Tete and one was in Manica. No Covid-19 patients were hospitalised in the other eight provinces.

No deaths from Covid-19 were reported on Saturday, and so the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remains 2,198.

There were also no recoveries reported on Saturday. The total number of recoveries now stands at 222,875, which is slightly less than 99 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases rose from 88 on Friday to 96 on Saturday. The geographical breakdown of these cases was as follows: Maputo province, 21; Niassa, 19; Maputo city, 13; Zambezia, 12; Gaza, eight; Sofala, seven; Tete, six; Cabo Delgado, five; Manica, three; and Inhambane, two. Nampula was the only province with no active cases.

The Ministry release also reported that, over the previous 24 hours, 95,096 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated is now 12,288,300 – which is 80.8 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: Lusa