COVID-19: Nine new cases and 17 recoveries reported on Tuesday – AIM

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COVID-19: Nine new cases and 17 recoveries reported on Tuesday – AIM

7:10 CAT | 17 Mar 2022

The Mozambican health authorities on Tuesday reported nine new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease (after no cases at all were reported the previous day).

According to a Tuesday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,285,237 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 949 of them in the previous 24 hours.

940 of these tests yielded negative results, while the nine positive cases brought the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 225,188.

Eight of the new cases diagnosed on Tuesday were women and one was a man. Four were from Maputo city, three from Inhambane, one from Zambezia and one from Gaza. There were no positive cases reported from the other seven provinces. The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the virus) on Tuesday was 0.95 per cent.

Over the same 24 hour period, four Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (two in Maputo and two in Tete), while two new cases were admitted (one in Maputo and one in Tete). The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres fell from 15 on Monday to 13 on Tuesday. 11 of these patients (84.6 per cent) were in Maputo, one in Tete and one in Manica. Five of these patients are in intensive care and are receiving supplementary oxygen.

No deaths from Covid-19 were reported on Tuesday, and so the total death toll from the disease in Mozambique remained 2,198.

The Ministry release said that, in the previous 24 hours, a further 17 people were declared fully recovered from Covid-19 (seven in Sofala, four in Maputo city, three in Maputo province and three in Manica). This brought the total number of recoveries to 222,909, which is almost 99 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The total number of active Covid-19 cases fell from 85 on Monday to 77 on Tuesday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Niassa, 20; Maputo city, 17; Zambezia, 13; Maputo province, seven; Tete, six; Cabo Delgado, five; Gaza, five; Inhambane, three; and Nampula, one. There were no active cases at all in Manica or Sofala.

The release also reported that, in the previous 24 hours, a further 117,494 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The total number of people fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 12,521,001 – which is 82.3 per cent of all citizens aged 18 or above.

Source: AIM