Covid-19: Five more deaths, 677 new cases and 806 recoveries reported on Thursday – AIM report

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Covid-19: Five more deaths, 677 new cases and 806 recoveries reported on Thursday – AIM report

10:26 CAT | 26 Feb 2021

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The Mozambican health authorities on Thursday reported a further five deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease and 677 new cases.

According to a Ministry of Health press release, the latest victims were three men and two women, all Mozambican citizens, aged between 39 and 68. Three of the deaths occurred in Maputo city, one in Gaza and one in Zambezia. Four of the deaths were declared on Wednesday and one on Thursday.

This brings the death toll from Covid-19 in Mozambique to 613. An overwhelming majority of the deaths – 484 (79 per cent) – have happened in Maputo,

Since the start of the pandemic, 413,982 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 3,916 of them in the previous 24 hours. Of the samples tested, 1,070 were from Maputo city, 706 from Tete, 496 from Sofala, 409 from Maputo province, 374 from Zambezia, 366 from Cabo Delgado, 298 from Nampula, 145 from Manica, 48 from Inhambane, and four from Gaza. No tests were reported from Niassa.

All the four provinces that reported no tests at all on Wednesday, reported several hundred on Thursday – except for Gaza, where only four tests were held.

3,239 of the tests gave negative results, while 677 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This brings the total number of cases of Covid-19 diagnosed in Mozambique to 57,597.

The positivity rate (the proportion of those tested found to be carrying the virus) on Thursday was 17.3 per cent. This is the lowest rate since the 17 per cent recorded on 8 February, The positivity rates in recent days were as follows: Sunday – 23.1 per cent; Monday – 22.1 per cent; Tuesday – 22.2 per cent; Wednesday – 20.8 per cent. It is still too early to conclude that there is a genuine trend to a reduction in the positivity rate.

Of the new cases reported on Thursday, 646 are Mozambican nationals, 18 are known to be foreigners (but the Ministry did not reveal their nationalities), and the nationalities of the remaining 13 have yet to be confirmed.

381 are men or boys and 296 are women or girls. 29 are children under the age of 15 and 26 are over 65 years old. No age information was available for 18 cases.

Maputo city and province accounted for 39.4 per cent of the new cases (141 in Maputo province and 136 in Maputo city). There were also 94 cases in Tete, 81 in Sofala, 74 in Cabo Delgado, 70 in Zambezia, 56 in Nampula, 19 in Manica, five in Inhambane and one in Gaza.

Over the same 24 hour period, 38 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (30 in Maputo, five in Tete and three in Inhambane), but 47 new cases were admitted (28 in Maputo, six in Matola, five in Tete, three in Sofala, two in Inhambane, two in Niassa, and one in Gaza).

AS of Thursday, there were 232 people under medical care in the Covid-19 wards (up from 228 on Wednesday). The great majority of these – 170 (73.3 per cent) – are in Maputo. There are also 17 patients in Matola, 14 in Zambezia, eight in Sofala, seven in Tete, six in Nampula, four in Cabo Delgado, two in Niassa, two in Inhambane, one in Manica and one in Gaza. Thus there is at least one person in a Covid-19 isolation facility in each of Mozambique’s 11 provinces.

The Ministry also reported that a further 806 people were declared entirely cured of Covid-9 on Thursday (546 in Maputo province, 194 in Gaza, 44 in Manica, 14 in Zambezia, and eight in Maputo city). This brings the total number of recoveries to 38,676, which is 67.1 per cent of all those diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

Since the number of recoveries on Thursday was larger than the number of new cases, the number of active Covid-19 cases has fallen to 18,304 (down from 18,438 on Wednesday). The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 11,776 (64.3 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 1,956; Sofala, 1,861; Cabo Delgado, 782; Inhambane, 567; Niassa, 364; Tete, 299; Nampula, 296; Zambezia, 201; Manica, 181; and Gaza, 18.

Source: AIM