COVID-19: Mozambique reports another 100 new cases, and 252 recoveries

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COVID-19: Mozambique reports another 100 new cases, and 252 recoveries

12:05 CAT | 06 Oct 2020

File photo: Lusa

The Mozambican Ministry of Health (Misau) yesterday announced 100 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the cumulative country total to 9,296, while the number of deaths attributed to the coronavirus pandemic remains at 66.

The cases reported on Monday were the result of 1,488 tests, of which 1,388 were negative.

Of the 100 new cases, 98 are of Mozambican nationality and two are foreigners, one South African and one Chinese citizen.

The note added that 253 people were now hospitalised with the novel coronavirus in Mozambique, 48 in Covid-19 in-patient centres and other hospital units.

“Of the patients currently hospitalised, thirty-seven are male (77.%) and eleven female (22.%). Of these, five are children under one -year-old (0.4%), three are children aged from one to four years old (6.3%), three are children aged between five and 14 years old (6.3%). Four are young people aged between 25 to 34-year-old (8.3%), five are adults in the 35-44 age group (0.4%), ten are in the 45-59 age group (20.8%) and eight are aged 60 years or over (37.5%),” the MISAU bulletin reads.

Of the 253 individuals hospitalised, 19 are in a moderate condition (3 .6%), 28 are in a serious condition (58.3%) and one is in a critical state (2.1%).

“Inpatients suffer from various chronic pathologies, the most frequent of which are arterial hypertension[25%] and diabetes [42.5%],” the bulletin notes.

MISAU yesterday reported that 252 more people have recovered from Covid-19 , bringing the total number of people so classified to 6,104.

Since the first Covid-19 case was registered in Mozambique in March, just over 1.4 million cases have been tested and just over 2.4 million people have been screened. Currently, 5,673 people are quarantined at home and 2,269 contacts are being followed up.

In total, the country has 3,122 active cases, the city of Maputo having the highest number of active cases (1,985), followed by Maputo province (751), Niassa province (86), Tete (66), Cabo Delgado (52), and Sofala (55). The remaining five provinces have less than 50 cases each.

The Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than one million and thirty thousand lives among more than 35.2 million infected worldwide, according to a report by the French AFP press agency.

Covid-19 is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China. After Europe succeeded China as the centre of the pandemic in February, the American continent has now registered the highest number of confirmed cases and deaths.

Mozambique: Another 100 Covid-19 cases, mostly from Maputo – AIM report

The Mozambican health authorities on Monday reported a further 100 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, with two thirds of these cases occurring in Maputo city and province.

According to a Ministry of Health press release, since the start of the pandemic, 146,106 people have been tested for the coronavirus that cause Covid-19, 1,488 of them in the previous 24 hours. All of the tests were administered in public facilities.

1,388 of the samples tested negative, and 100 were positive for the coronavirus. The number of cases recorded in Mozambique, since the first case was diagnosed on 22 March, now stands at 9.296.

98 of the new cases are Mozambicans, one is South African and one is Chinese. One of the Mozambicans caught the disease in Tanzania, and imported it.

52 of these cases are women or girls and 48 are men or boys. 21 are children under the age of 15, and three are over 65 years old. There was no age information for two cases.

38 of the positive cases were from Maputo province, and 29 were from Maputo city. There were also 16 cases from Sofala, eight from Tete, four from Inhambane, two from Cabo Delgado, two from Zambezia and one from Gaza.

It has been clear for several weeks that the epicenter of the Covid-19 outbreak in Mozambique is in the far south, in Maputo city and province. The number of new cases in Cabo Delgado and Nampula, which were the main focus of attention in June, has now slowed to a trickle.

The Ministry release reported that, in the same 24 hour period, four more Covid-19 patients were hospitalised, all of them in Maputo city. There are now 48 people under medical care in the Covid-19 isolation wards, one in Nampula and 47 in Maputo.

Of the patients hospitalised, five are infants, under one year old, six are children aged between one and 14 years, and 18 are in the high risk group of people over 60 years old. The Ministry reported that 19 of these patients are moderately ill. 28 are in a serious condition, and one is critically ill.

In addition to Covid-19, these patient are suffering from other chronic conditions. 42.5 per cent of them have diabetes, and 25 per cent have high blood pressure.

The Ministry also announced that a further 252 people have made a full recovery from Covid-19, 128 of them in Zambezia, 79 in Maputo province, 22 in Maputo city, 11 in Gaza, eight in Inhambane and four in Cabo Delgado. The number of recoveries now stands at 6,104, which is 65.7 per cent of all those known to have been infected by the coronavirus.

As of Monday, the geographical breakdown of all 9,296 positive cases, by the province where they were diagnosed, was as follows: Maputo city, 4,251; Maputo province, 1,606; Cabo Delgado, 722; Zambezia, 623; Nampula, 585; Gaza, 364; Tete, 320; Sofala, 261; Inhambane, 240; Niassa, 233; Manica, 109.

When the recoveries are omitted, it can be seen that Maputo city and province are now responsible for over 87 per cent of all active cases.

The basic Covid-19 statistics for Mozambique are now: 9,296 confirmed cases, of whom 6,104 have made a complete recovery, and 3,122 are active cases. 70 Covid-19 patients have died, 66 from the disease, and four from other causes.

Source: Lusa / AIM