COVID-19: Only 23 new cases in past week – AIM

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COVID-19: Only 23 new cases in past week – AIM

8:50 CAT | 27 Mar 2022

FILE PHOTO - For illustration purposes only. [File photo: Lusa]

The Mozambican health authorities announced on Thursday a further three cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

In the past seven days there have been 23 new cases – or an average of 3.3 a day.

According to a press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,291.515 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 662 of them in the previous 24 hours.

659 of the tests yielded negative results, and the three positive cases brought the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 225,223.

Thursday’s new cases were all Mozambican men, aged between 14 and 55. One was from Maputo city, one from Inhambane and one from Nampula. The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the coronavirus) fell from 0.55 per cent on Wednesday to 0.45 per cent on Thursday.

The Ministry reported no further deaths from the disease on Thursday, and so the Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remains 2,200.

Over the same 24 hour period, one Covid-19 patient was discharged from hospital and one new case was admitted, both in Maputo. The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities, remained five, the same as on Tuesday and Wednesday. All five were in Maputo, and two were in intensive care, receiving supplementary oxygen.

The Ministry release reported no recoveries from the disease. The total number of recoveries thus remains 222,965, which is almost exactly 99 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The total number of active Covid-19 cases in Mozambique rose from 51 on Wednesday to 54 on Thursday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Zambezia, 17; Maputo city, nine; Gaza, nine; Inhambane, five; Niassa, four; Nampula, four; Tete, three; Cabo Delgado, two; and Manica, one. There were no active cases in either Sofala or Maputo province.

The Ministry release said that, in the previous 24 hours, a further 47,208 people had been vaccinated against Covid-19. To date, 13,130,797 have been fully vaccinated against the disease. This is 86.3 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM