Covid-19 | Mozambique: Positivity rate below one per cent: 14-year-old dies in Gaza – AIM

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Covid-19 | Mozambique: Positivity rate below one per cent: 14-year-old dies in Gaza – AIM

8:27 CAT | 18 Oct 2021

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The Mozambican health authorities on Sunday reported just five cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease in the previous 24 hours, and one death.

According to a Sunday press release from the Health Ministry, the latest victim was a 14 year old adolescent girl, who died in the southern province of Gaza. This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 1,926.

Since the start of the pandemic, 926,360 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 760 of them in the previous 24 hours. 755 of the tests gave negative results, and five people tested positive for the virus.

Three of the new cases were men and two were women. Two were from Maputo city, two from Nampula, and one from Gaza. No positive cases were reported from any of the other eight provinces.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) has fallen to below one per cent. On Sunday, it was 0.7 per cent. This compares with 1.3 per cent on Saturday, 1.3 per cent on Friday, one per cent on Thursday, 1.8 per cent on Wednesday, and two per cent on Tuesday.

Over the same 24 hour period, two new Covid-19 cases were hospitalised, both in Maputo. No Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital.

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities rose slightly, from seven on Saturday to eight on Sunday. Three of these patients were in Maputo, two in Niassa, and one each in Nampula, Gaza and Inhambane. No Covid-19 patients were hospitalised in the other six provinces.

The Ministry release also reported that on Sunday a further 88 people were declared to have made a full recovery from Covid-19 (85 in Nampula and three in Zambezia). The total number of recoveries now stands at 148,187, or 98.1 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases fell from 1,069 on Saturday to 985 on Sunday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 576 (58.5 per cent of the total); Nampula, 194; Cabo Delgado, 126; Gaza, 22; Inhambane, 19; Niassa, 19; Zambezia, 13; Maputo province, six; Manica, six; and Tete, four. Sofala remained the only province without any active Covid-19 cases.

The Ministry also reported that, in the previous 24 hours, 2,019 people received their second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19. Since vaccination began, on 8 March, 1,823,494 people have been fully immunised against the disease, and 1,973,519 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

Source: AIM