Covid-19: Mozambique reported eight more deaths and 675 new cases on Sunday – AIM report

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Covid-19: Mozambique reported eight more deaths and 675 new cases on Sunday – AIM report

4:00 CAT | 22 Feb 2021

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The Mozambican health authorities on Sunday reported a further eight deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 675 new cases.

According to a Ministry of Health press release, the latest victims were seven men and one woman, all Mozambicans and aged between 38 and 82. All of them died in Maputo city. Five of the deaths were declared on Saturday, and three on Sunday.

This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 595. The great majority of these deaths – 469 (78.8 per cent) – have occurred in Maputo.

Since the start of the pandemic, 404,213 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 2,845 of them in the previous 24 hours. Of the samples tested, 721 were from Maputo city, 613 from Niassa, 366 from Inhambane, 312 from Sofala, 300 from Tete, 282 from Maputo province, 142 from Cabo Delgado, 83 from Gaza, 15 from Manica and 11 from Zambezia. No tests were reported from Nampula.

2,170 of the tests gave negative results, and 675 people tested positive for the coronavirus. The Sunday positivity rate (the proportion of those tested found to be carrying the virus) was 23.7 per cent – not far removed from the rates found in previous days (27.6 per cent on Saturday, 23.9 per cent on Friday, 24.2 per cent on Thursday, and 21.9 per cent on Wednesday).

665 of the cases reported on Sunday are Mozambicans, four are known to be foreigners (but the Ministry did not announce their nationalities), and the nationalities of the remaining six have yet to be confirmed. 366 were men or boys and 309 were women or girls. 66 were children under the age of 15 and 36 were over 65 years old. For ten cases, no age information was available.

The capital remains the epicenter of the Mozambican epidemic. 152 of the new cases were from Maputo city, and 114 from Maputo province. Thus Maputo city and province accounted for 39.4 per cent of the cases reported on Sunday. But there were also 129 cases from Cabo Delgado (the great majority of the 142 people tested), 95 from Sofala, 75 from Niassa, 44 from Inhambane, 42 from Tete, 16 from Gaza, seven from Zambezia and one from Manica.

Over the same 24 hour period, 38 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (21 in Maputo, nine in Matola, five in Sofala, two in Tete and one in Niassa), while 35 new cases were admitted (22 in Maputo, ten in Matola and one each in Zambézia, Tete and Sofala).

As of Sunday, 233 people were under medical care in the Covid-19 wards (down from 244 on Saturday). The great majority – 187 (80.3 per cent) – are in Maputo. There are also 13 patients in Zambezia, 12 in Matola, six in Nampula, six in Tete, three in Gaza, two in Sofala, two in Inhambane, one in Cabo Delgado and one in Manica. Niassa is currently the only province where no Covid-9 patients are hospitalised.

The Ministry release announced that a further 346 people have been declared fully recovered from Covid-19 (345 in Inhambane, and one in Zambezia). The total number of recoveries now stands at 35,267, or 63.4 per cent of all people in Mozambique diagnosed with the coronavirus.

Since the number of new cases continues to outstrip the number of recoveries, the number of active Covid-19 cases is still rising. On Sunday, it reached 19,777 (up from 19,460 on Saturday). The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 11,304 (57.2 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 2,558; Sofala, 2,149; Cabo Delgado, 850; Inhambane, 782; Gaza, 705; Niassa, 424; Tete, 360; Nampula, 256; Manica, 218; and Zambezia, 171.

Source: AIM