Covid-19: Second consecutive day with over 3,000 new cases

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Covid-19: Second consecutive day with over 3,000 new cases

11:36 CAT | 31 Dec 2021

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The Mozambican health authorities reported on Wednesday a further 3,624 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease – which makes Wednesday the worst 24 hour period so far in the Mozambican epidemic.

The worst days in terms of numbers of new cases have been:

29 December – 3,624
28 December – 3,473
24 December – 2,770
28 July – 2,460
23 December – 2,445
22 December – 2,337
21 December – 2,068

Thus six of the worst seven days in the pandemic have occurred in December.

According to a Wednesday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,076,026 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 8,790 of them in the previous 24 hours.

5.166 of the tests gave negative results. The 3,624 positive cases brought the number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 179,272.

Of Wednesday’s new cases, 2,002 were women and 1,620 were men. In two cases the sex of the patient was not given. 476 of the cases were children under the age of 15.

61 per cent of the new cases were from the four provinces south of the Save river – 726 from Maputo city, 630 from Maputo province, 604 from Gaza and 249 from Inhambane. There were also 298 cases from Cabo Delgado, 290 from Sofala, 241 from Nampula, 222 from Manica, 200 from Zambezia, 113 from Tete, and 51 from Niassa.

Because more people were tested on Wednesday than on Tuesday, the positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be infected) fell from 47.61 to 41.23 per cent.

Over the same 24 hour period, 20 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (nine in Maputo, seven in Gaza, two in Cabo Delgado and two in Niassa), but 64 new cases were admitted (34 in Maputo, seven in Sofala, five in Gaza, five in Manica, four in Cabo Delgado, four in Zambezia, three in Inhambane and two in Niassa.

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres rose from 128 on Tuesday to 158 on Wednesday. 106 of these patients (67.1 per cent) were in Maputo, 12 in Inhambane, 11 in Sofala, seven in Manica, six in Gaza, five in Niassa, five in Zambezia, three in Matola and three in Cabo Delgado. In only two provinces (Nampula and Tete) were no Covid-19 patients hospitalised.

The Health Ministry reported a further 12 deaths from Covid-19. Seven of the latest victims were men and five were women. Eight died in Maputo, two in Gaza, one in Inhambane and one in Sofala. They were aged between 24 and 75. This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 1,988.

705 people were declared fully recovered from Covid-19 – 495 in Maputo province, 179 in Gaza and 31 in Tete. The total number of recoveries to date is 153,751, which is 85.8 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 continued to climb – from 20,642 on Tuesday to 23,549 on Wednesday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was Maputo city, 7.863 (33.4 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 6,083; Inhambane, 2,529; Gaza, 2,175; Manica, 1,649; Sofala, 1,044; Cabo Delgado, 683; Nampula, 504; Zambezia, 454; Tete, 411; and Niassa, 154.

The Ministry release also reported that, in the previous 24 hours, a further 111,203 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease has now risen to 6,208,957, while 8,750,589 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

Source: AIM