Covid-19: Mozambique reports six deaths, 951 new cases, and 581 recoveries

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Covid-19: Mozambique reports six deaths, 951 new cases, and 581 recoveries

10:42 CAT | 10 Feb 2021

Picture: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/AP/AAP

Mozambique on Wednesday reported six more Covid-19 deaths. Five had been declared on Tuesday and one on Wednesday, the Ministry of Health (MISAU) announced in a statment.

The victims were five men and one woman, aged between 38 and 83. All were Mozambican citizens.

The total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique is now 486 . Most of these deaths , 377, occurred in Maputo city.

A further 951 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were reported. This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 46,736.

497 of the new cases are men or boys, and 454 are women or girls. 78 are children under the age of 15 and 42 are over 65 years old. No age information was available for 32 cases.

According to the Covid-19 data update statement, from Tuesday to Wednesday 581 individuals completely recovered from Covid-19 , bringing the total number of recoveries to 28,395, (68%).

The Ministry release said that, over the same 24 hour period, 26 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (all in Maputo city), while 32 new cases were admitted (30 in Maputo and two in Zambézia).

As of Wednesday, there were 311 people in the Covid-19 wards, the majority in Maputo city: 252.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 in Mozambique now stands at 17,851. The geographical distribution of the active cases is as follows: Maputo city,9.741; Maputo province,2.619; Sofala, 1.771; Gaza, 928; Cabo Delgado, 626; Niassa, 584; Inhambane, 468; Nampula, 366 ; Manica, 346; Tete, 266; and Zambezia, 136.