Covid-19 / Mozambique: 19 more deaths and 1,260 new ceases reported on Sunday – AIM report

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Covid-19 / Mozambique: 19 more deaths and 1,260 new ceases reported on Sunday – AIM report

6:55 CAT | 19 Jul 2021

FILE - For illustration purposes only.Hospitalised Covid-19 patients in Mavalane hospital, Maputo. [File photo: Lusa]

According to the latest statistics from the Mozambican health authorities, a further 1,260 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease were reported on Sunday, and 19 people died of the disease.

The latest victims were 11 men and eight women, all Mozambican citizens and aged between 21 and 83. 12 of them died in Maputo, three in Matola and one each in Gaza, Inhambane, Manica and Sofala.

This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 1,118, and the death toll in July alone to 240. Over 21 per cent of all Covid-19 deaths in the country occurred in the first 18 days of July.

According to a Sunday press release from the Health Ministry, since the start of the pandemic 670,062 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 3,656 of them in the previous 24 hours. As has occurred repeatedly in July, the majority of the samples tested came from the Covid-19 hotspots of Maputo and Tete – 1,744 from Maputo city, 447 from Tete and 343 from Maputo province. These three provinces accounted for 69.3 per cent of all the tests.

There were also 234 tests from Nampula, 216 from Sofala, 197 from Niassa, 145 from Inhambane, 119 from Gaza, 103 from Manica, 86 from Cabo Delgado, and 22 from Zambezia.

2,396 of the tests gave negative results and 1,260 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This brought the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 99,412.

As expected, most of the positive cases were from Maputo city (709), Maputo province (171) and Tete (146). Thus 81.4 per cent of Sunday’s positive tests were from Maputo (city and province) and Tete.

There were also 73 positive cases from Gaza, 45 from Manica, 37 from Niassa, 36 from Inhambane, 27 from Sofala, eight from Nampula, four from Zambezia and four from Cabo Delgado.

The national positivity rate (the proportion of those tested found to be infected with the virus) on Sunday was 34.5 per cent, not much different from Saturday’s 35.5 per cent. The rate for previous days was 29.7 per cent on Friday, 28.3 per cent on Thursday, and 35 per cent on Wednesday.

Broken down by province, the same pattern as found earlier in the month shows up again – the highest positivity rates are found in the southern and central provinces, and the lowest in the provinces north of the Zambezi.

On Sunday, the highest positivity rate, 61.3 per cent, was found in Gaza, followed by Maputo province (49.9 per cent), Manica (43.7 per cent), Maputo city (40.7 per cent) and Tete (32.7 per cent).

All four provinces north of the Zambezi had rates lower than 20 per cent, and in two cases, lower than five per cent. Niassa was the highest, with 18.8 per cent, followed by Zambezia (18.2 per cent), Cabo Delgado (4.6 per cent) and Nampula (3.4 per cent).

A bright spot in the latest figures was that the number of patients in the Covid-19 treatment facilities fell from 499 on Saturday to 481 on Sunday. In the previous 24 hours, 54 new patients were admitted to the Covid-19 wards (34 in Maputo, 13 in Matola, three in Sofala, two in Tete, one in Mania and one in Gaza). This was almost cancelled out by the 53 patients discharged from hospital (21 in Maputo, 16 in Sofala, nine in Matola, four in Manica and three in Tete).

Most of those hospitalised – 331 (68.8 per cent) – were in Maputo, There were also 44 patients in Matola, 43 in Sofala, 23 in Tete, 11 in Inhambane, nine in Manica, eight in Zambezia, seven in Gaza, three in Nampula and two in Niassa. Cabo Delgado remained the only province where no Covid-19 patients were hospitalised.

The Ministry release added that in the same 24 hour period, 447 people were declared to have made a full recovery from Covid-19 (153 from Niassa, 144 from Maputo province, 132 from Inhambane and 18 from Zambezia). The total number of recoveries now stands at 76,716, which is 77.2 per cent of all Covid-19 cases ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of new cases continues to outrun the number of recoveries, and so the number of Covid-19 active cases grew from 20,780 on Saturday to a new record of 21,574 on Sunday. The geographical breakdown of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 12,550 (58.2 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 3,117; Tete, 2,324; Manica, 917; Gaza, 894; Inhambane, 623; Niassa, 414; Sofala, 410; Nampula, 164; Zambezia, 119; and Cabo Delgado, 42.

Source: AIM