Covid-19 | Mozambique: 17 new cases, 225 recoveries and one death reported on Wednesday – AIM

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Covid-19 | Mozambique: 17 new cases, 225 recoveries and one death reported on Wednesday – AIM

8:39 CAT | 03 Mar 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Wednesday reported a further 17 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 225 full recoveries.

According to a Wednesday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic 1,272,590 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 2,032 of them in the previous 24 hours.

2,015 of the tests gave negative results, while the 17 positive cases raised the number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 225,080. Of the cases identified on Wednesday, 12 were women and five were men. Four were from Maputo city, three each were from Niassa, Manica and Maputo province, two were from Cabo Delgado and two were from Gaza.

The Covid-19 positivity rate (the percentage of those tested who prove to be carrying the coronavirus) fell slightly from 0.93 per cent on Tuesday to 0.86 on Wednesday.

Over the same 24 hour period, just one Covid-19 patient was discharged from hospital, in Maputo, while three new cases were admitted (one in Maputo, one in Gaza and one in Cabo Delgado).

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres rose from 20 on Tuesday to 21 on Wednesday. 11 of these cases (52.4 per cent) were in Maputo. There were also three in Tete, two each in Cabo Delgado, Niassa and Manica, and one in Gaza. No patients with Covid-19 were hospitalized in t212he other five provinces.

Of the 225 recoveries, 219 were from Maputo city, 25 from Tete and six from Gaza. This brings the total number of recoveries to 219,863, which is 97.7 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

After five days without any deaths from Covid-19, the Ministry reported the death on Wednesday of a 34 year old man in Gaza province. This brought the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 2,192.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 fell from 3,229 on Tuesday to 3.020 on Wednesday. The geographical breakdown of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 2,859 (94.7 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 61; Cabo Delgado, 26; Zambezia, 14; Niassa, 13; Tete, 13; Manica, 12; Gaza, 12; Sofala, five; Nampula, three; and Inhambane, two.

The Ministry release also announced that, in the previous 24 hours, a further 97,612 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number fully vaccinated against the disease has now reached 11,241,438, which is 73.9 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM