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Covid-19: number of new daily cases falls, but positivity rate rises
7:54 CAT | 02 Jan 2022
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The daily number of new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease declined substantially on the first day of the New Year – but the positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the coronavirus that causes the disease) increased.
According to a Saturday press release from the Ministry of Health, 2,642 cases were diagnosed in the previous 24 hours. This brings the total number of cases of Covid-19 diagnosed in Mozambique to 191,722.
Since the start of the pandemic, 1,104,929 people have been tested for the virus, 6.007 of them in the previous 24 hours.
3,365 of these tests gave negative results. Of the 2,642 positive cases, 1,437 were women and 1,205 were men. 405 were children under the age of 15.
As has become the norm, over half the new cases – 54 per cent – were from the four provinces south of the Save river (533 from Maputo city, 291 from Maputo province, 313 from Gaza, and 290 from Inhambane). There were also 390 cases from Sofala, 196 from Nampula, 181 from Cabo Delgado, 178 from Zambezia, 153 from Manica, 94 from Niassa, and 23 from Tete.
The positivity rate rose from 42.66 per cent on Friday to 43.98 per cent on Saturday. The highest positivity rate, of 48.15 per cent, was found in Maputo city.
Over the same 24 hour period, 31 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (19 in Maputo, five in Niassa, three in Gaza, and two each in Zambezia and Sofala), while 41 new cases were admitted (30 in Maputo, two each in Matola, Gaza, Sofala, Zambezia and Niassa, and one in Cabo Delgado).
The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres rose from 180 on Friday to 184 on Saturday. 128 of these patients (69.6 per cent) were in Maputo. There were also 14 patients in Sofala, nine in Matola, nine in Inhambane, seven in Manica, five in Niassa, five in Zambezia, four in Gaza and three in Cabo Delgado. Tete and Nampula remained the only provinces where no Covid-19 patients were hospitalised.
The Health Ministry reported a further six deaths from Covid-19, three men and three women, aged between 20 and 65. Three of the deaths occurred in Maputo, and one each in Zambezia, Gaza and Cabo Delgado. This brought the total death toll in Mozambique from Covid-19 to 2,012.
Only six people were reported to have made a full recovery from Covid-19, all of them in Zambezia. The total number of recoveries now stands at 156,576, which is 81.7 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.
The number of active cases of Covid-19 rose from 30,500 on Friday to 33,130 on Saturday. The geographical breakdown of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 8,226 (24.9 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 7,319; Inhambane, 3,791; Gaza, 3,715; Manica, 2,565; Sofala, 2,459; Cabo Delgado, 1.579; Nampula, 1,234; Zambezia, 1,122; Tete, 705; and Niassa, 415.
The national vaccination campaign against Covid-19 was interrupted because of the New Year celebrations, and will resume on Monday.
Source: AIM
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