Covid-19: Mozambique reported 12 more deaths and 426 new cases on Monday / Watch

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Covid-19: Mozambique reported 12 more deaths and 426 new cases on Monday / Watch

7:30 CAT | 16 Feb 2021

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The Mozambican health authorities on Monday announced a further 12 deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease and 426 new cases.

According to a Ministry of Health press release, the latest victims were eight men and four women, all of Mozambican nationality and aged between 42 and 84. One of the deaths was declared last Friday, three on Saturday, seven on Sunday and one on Monday.

11 of the deaths occurred in Maputo city and one in Maputo province. They bring the total Mozambican death toll from Covid-19 to 547. The majority of these deaths – 426 (77.9 per cent) – happened in Maputo.

Since the start of the pandemic, 384,934 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,849 of them in the previous 24 hours. Of the samples tested, 490 were from Inhambane, 448 from Maputo city, 339 from Maputo province, 204 from Nampula, 123 from Gaza, 91 from Niassa. 83 from Sofala, 47 from Zambezia, 13 from Cabo Delgado, 10 from Tete, and one from Manica.

1,423 of the tests gave negative results, and 426 people tested positive for the coronavirus. At first sight this is an improvement on the previous day, when 814 people were diagnosed with Covid-19. But that is probably because several hundred fewer people were tested on Monday.

The positivity rate (the proportion of those tested found to be carrying the virus) was 23 per cent – which compares with 33 per cent on Sunday, 24.6 per cent on Saturday, and 30.6 per cent on Friday.

Of the cases reported on Monday, 421 are known to be Mozambican citizens, three are foreigners (but the Ministry did not reveal their nationalities), and in two cases their nationalities have not yet been confirmed. 220 are men or boys and 206 are women or girls. 29 are children under the age of 15, and 24 are over 65 years old. In 35 cases, no age information was available.

The largest number of positive cases – 144 – came from Inhambane. There were also 99 cases from Maputo city, 61 from Maputo province, 38 from Nampula, 34 from Gaza, 22 from Niassa, 17 from Sofala, six from Cabo Delgado, four from Zambezia and one from Tete.

The Ministry reported that, in the same 24 hour period, 19 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (15 in Maputo, two in Cabo Delgado, one in Tete and one in Sofala), but 24 new patients were admitted (19 in Maputo, two in Tete, two in Nampula and one in Matola).

As of Monday, 283 people were under medical care in the Covid-19 wards – 223 (78.8 per cent of the total) in Maputo, 12 in Matola, 11 in Zambezia, nine in Inhambane, eight in Sofala, eight in Tete, six in Nampula, three in Niassa, two in Gaza and one in Manica. Cabo Delgado was the only province where no Covid-19 patients were hospitalised.

215 of those hospitalised are men and 68 are women. The dominant age groups are the over 60s, with 121 hospitalised (42.8 per cent), and the 45-59 age group – 76 hospitalised (26.9 per cent).

The Ministry release described the clinical condition of 133 patients as “moderate”. But 138 are seriously ill and 12 are in a critical condition. 187 are receiving oxygen therapy, and 12 are on ventilators. 42 per cent of those hospitalised are also suffering from high blood pressure, and 17 per cent are diabetic.

Over the same 24 hour period, a further 248 people made a full recovery from Covid-19 (119 in Tete, 81 in Nampula, and 48 in Zambezia). This brings the total number of recoveries to 31,947 – or 63 per cent of all those diagnosed in Mozambique with the coronavirus.

The number of active Covid-19 cases continues to rise. On Monday, it was 18,193 (up from 18,031 on Sunday). The geographical distribution of the active cases was: Maputo city, 10,048 (55.2 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 2,606; Sofala, 2,117; Inhambane, 810; Cabo Delgado, 719; Niassa, 474; Gaza, 398; Manica, 301; Tete, 269; Nampula, 231; and Zambezia, 220.

Source: AIM / MISAU