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Covid-19: Only 39 new cases reported on Friday – AIM report
8:56 CAT | 30 Nov 2020
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The number of new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease reported on Friday was only 39 – the lowest number of positive cases reported for months.
A Ministry of Health press release said that, since the start of the pandemic, 228,683 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,498 of them in the previous 24 hours.
Of the samples tested, 724 were from Maputo city, 218 from Inhambane, 195 from Zambezia, 148 from Sofala, 125 from Maputo province, 44 from Nampula, 30 from Manica, 12 from Tete, one from Cabo Delgado and one from Gaza.
1,459 of the tests were negative, and 39 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This brings the total number of positive cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 15,506. 30 of the new cases are Mozambicans, three are Brazilians, two are Chinese, one is South African, one Portuguese, one Spanish and one Italian.
17 of the new cases are from Maputo city and eight are from Maputo province. So Maputo city and province account for 64 per cent of the new cases. There were also 10 cases from Zambezia, and one each from Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Manica and Gaza.
In line with standard Ministry of Health procedure, all 39 new cases are now in home isolation, and their contacts are being traced.
Over the previous 24 hours, eight Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital (one in Zambezia and seven in Maputo city). No patients were discharged. Currently 43 people are under medical care in the Covid-19 isolation wards (38 in Maputo, three in Zambezia, one in Matola and one in Tete.
The Ministry release also reported that a further 111 people have made a full recovery from Covid-19 (73 in Maputo city, and 38 in Maputo province). The total number of recoveries now stands at 13,631, which is 87.9 per cent of all people diagnosed with the coronavirus in Mozambique.
There are now 1,743 active cases of Covid-19, distributed as follows: Maputo city, 1,539 (88.3 per cent of the total); Cabo Delgado, 52; Sofala, 30; Nampula, 28; Gaza, 26; Zambezia, 20; Maputo province, 18; Manica, 13; Inhambane, eight; Tete, seven; Niassa, two.
The Health Ministry release reported no further deaths, and so the Covid-19 death toll remains 128.
(AIM)
Source: AIM
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