Covid-19 | Mozambique: 14 new cases and no deaths reported on Saturday – AIM

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Covid-19 | Mozambique: 14 new cases and no deaths reported on Saturday – AIM

7:12 CAT | 07 Mar 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Saturday reported a further 14 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and no deaths or recoveries from the disease.

According to a Saturday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,276,700 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,352 of them in the previous 24 hours.

1,338 of the tests gave negative results, and the 14 positive cases brought the total number of Covid-19 cases identified in Mozambique to 225,135. Eight of Saturday’s new cases were men and five were women. In one case the sex of the patient was not reported.

Seven of the new cases (50 per cent) were from Maputo city, four from Tete, and one each from Cabo Delgado, Niassa and Inhambane. No positive cases were reported from the other six provinces.

The Covid-19 positivity rate (the percentage of those tested who prove to be carrying the virus) fell from 1.33 per cent on Friday to 1.04 per cent on Saturday.

Over the same 24 hour period, just one Covid-19 patient was discharged from hospital in Maputo, and no new cases were admitted. The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres fell from 19 on Friday to 17 on Saturday. 12 of these patients (70.6 per cent) were in Maputo, three in Tete and two in Manica. No Covid-19 cases were hospitalized in the other eight provinces.

With no new deaths reported, the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remains 2,194

The number of active cases of Covid-19 rose slightly, from 3,025 on Friday to 3,038 on Saturday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 2,877 (94.7 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 33; Cabo Delgado, 29; Tete, 21; Zambezia, 20; Niassa, 16; Gaza, 15; Manica, 14; Sofala, six; Nampula, four; and Inhambane, three.

The Ministry release also reported that over the past 24 hours, a further 105,691 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number fully vaccinated against the disease has now risen to 11,593,897 – which is 76.2 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM