Covid-19: positivity rate almost 40 per cent

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Covid-19: positivity rate almost 40 per cent

6:58 CAT | 21 Dec 2021

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According to the Mozambican health authorities, almost 40 per cent of those tested on Monday were positive for the coronavírus that causes the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

A Ministry of Health press release reported that, since the start of the pandemic, 1,028,872 people have been tested for the coronavirus, 1,446 of them in the previous 24 hours.

893 of the tests gave negative results, while 553 people tested positive for the virus. 303 of these cases were women and 250 were men. 57 were children under the age of 15. The total number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique has now reached 160,457.

As has been the case throughout December, the overwhelming majority of the new cases – 93.7 per cent – were from the far south (361 from Maputo city and 157 from Maputo province). There were also 16 cases from Inhambane, 10 from Gaza, three from Nampula, three from Tete, two from Cabo Delgado, and one from Manica. There were no positive cases at all from three provinces (Sofala, Zambezia and Niassa).

The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the virus) was 38.24 per cent – a huge increase on the rates earlier in the month (e.g. 26.2 per cent on Sunday, 27.28 per cent on Saturday, and 29.13 per cent on Friday).

The positivity rate was even higher in the worst hit areas – 50.63 per cent in Maputo city, and 45.77 per cent in Maputo province – but in the northern provinces of Nampula and Cabo Delgado, it was only 3.5 per cent, and 9.5 per cent respectively.

Over the same 24 hour period, six Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, all of them in Maputo, and 15 new cases were admitted (14 in Maputo and one in Inhambane).

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres rose from 55 on Sunday to 64 on Monday. 49 of these patients were in Maputo, four each in Matola, Cabo Delgado and Inhambane, and one each in Manica, Sofala and Gaza. There were no Covid-19 patients hospitalised in the other four provinces.

No further Covid-19 deaths were reported on Monday, and so the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remains 1,952.

49 people were declared to have made a full recovery from Covid-19 (48 in Inhambane, and one in Zambezia). The total number of recoveries, now stands at 150,484, which is 93.8 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with the disease in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 has continued to rise – from 7,513 on Sunday to 8,017 on Monday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 3,567 (44.5 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 2,709; Gaza, 669; Inhambane, 551; Manica, 316; Sofala, 79; Cabo Delgado, 51; Tete, 31; Nampula, 22; Niassa, 12; and Zambezia, 10.

The Ministry also reported that, in the previous 24 hours, 82,777 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. To date, 5,404,760 people have been fully vaccinated against the disease, while 7,845,444 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

Source: AIM