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Covid-19 picks up speed in Mozambique with new cases confirmed in Marracuene, Changara and the cities of Maputo, Nampula and Pemba
3:12 CAT | 05 Jun 2020
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Testing of 69 Covid-19 samples collected in Nampula has revealed community transmission in the city, where 26 new patients were detected, four of them children. Still this Thursday (June 4), the coronavirus spread in the cities of Maputo and Pemba, with new foci diagnosed in the districts of Marracuene [Maputo province] and Changara [Tete province].
“Yesterday, we were among the 30 countries with the highest speed (of propagation),” Dr. Eduardo Samo Gudo Júnior acknowledged. “Today, unfortunately, we are among the top 28.”
On Thursday, National Director of Public Health Dr Rosa Marlene revealed that 36 of the 493 suspected cases from Niassa, Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Zambézia, Tete, Gaza and Maputo provinces and Maputo city, tested positive.
The new cases, most of which were detected through health surveillance, are in home isolation. Thirty three are Mozambicans and three are foreigners, 11 are asymptomatic and 25 have mild to moderate symptoms, Dr Rosa Marlene said.
In Maputo city, three new cases were diagnosed: two females over the age of 15 and one male under the age of 15.
In Maputo province, the cumulative total of positive cases rose to 24 with the detection of two new patients in Marracuene district, a boy under the age of 15 and a female case, over the age of 15.
Tete province has a cumulative total of five patients , with a woman over the age of 15 in Changara district diagnosed on Thursday.
Cabo Delgado province continues to be the epicentre of the pandemic, with a total of 150 positive cases, following the identification of four new cases in the city of Pemba, two of them female and over the age of 15, and two males over the age of 15..
Finally, from new samples from Nampula province, 26 more positive cases were discovered, all in the city of Nampula. Thirteen are female, of whom three are children and ten are over the age of 15. The other thirteen positive cases in Nampula are all male, one a child and twelve over the age of 15.
Deputy director-general of the National Institute of Health Dr Samo Gudo Jr admitted that the spread of Covid-19 is picking up speed, but continues to deny that Mozambique is in community transmission, despite the increasing number of new transmission chains of unknown origin and the diagnosis of many children.
“Yesterday, we were among the 30 countries with the highest speed (of propagation),” Dr Samo Gudo acknowledged. “Today, unfortunately, we are among the top 28.” He also acknowledged the increase in the positivity rate. “From Sunday to Wednesday [positivity rate rose] from 2.3 to 2.7. Unfortunately, today [Thursday, June 5] the positivity rate started to rise again, and we are now at 2.9, showing that the epidemic has started to pick up speed in Mozambique,” he revealed.
By Adérito Caldeira
Source: A Verdade
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