COVID-19: Seven deaths, 435 new cases and 1,346 recoveries reported on Tuesday – AIM report

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COVID-19: Seven deaths, 435 new cases and 1,346 recoveries reported on Tuesday – AIM report

10:23 CAT | 24 Feb 2021

FILE - A market in Beira. [File photo: Conselho Municipal da Beira]

The Mozambican health authorities on Tuesday reported a further seven deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 435 new cases.

According to a Ministry of Health press release, the latest victims are all Mozambican men aged between 62 and 84. All the deaths occurred in Maputo city.

This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 606. The great majority of these deaths – 479 (79 per cent) – have occurred in Maputo city.

Since the start of the pandemic, 408,510 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,960 of them in the previous 24 hours.

1,525 of these tests gave negative results, and 435 tested positive for the coronavirus. This brings the total number of cases of Covid-19 diagnosed in Mozambique to 56,595. The positivity rate (the proportion of those tested found to be carrying the virus) among those tested on Tuesday was 22.2 per cent. This is much the same as the rate for the previous few days – 22.1 per cent on Monday, 23.1 per cent on Sunday, 27.6 per cent on Saturday, and 23.9 per cent on Friday. Thus the positivity rate has been oscillating within a fairly narrow range.

Of the cases reported on Tuesday, 423 are Mozambican citizens, ten are foreigners (but the Ministry did not real their nationalities), and the nationality of two others has yet to be confirmed.

The province with the largest number of cases diagnosed on Tuesday was Sofala, with 111. There were 71 cases from Maputo city, 65 from Cabo Delgado, 52 from Niassa, 48 from Inhambane, 39 from Zambezia, 25 from Tete, 15 from Maputo province, and nine from Manica. No positive cases were reported from Nampula or Gaza.

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 wards fell to 215 (down from 222 on Monday). The great majority – 163 (75.8 per cent) are in Maputo city. There are also 13 patients in Zambezia, 11 in Matola, seven in Tete, six in Nampula, five in Sofala, three each in Cabo Delgado, Inhambane and Gaza, and one in Manica. Niassa is currently the only province where no Covid-19 patients are hospitalised.

The Ministry release reported that, in the same 24 hour period, 1,346 people were declared to have made a full recovery from Covid-19 – 507 in Gaza, 204 in Cabo Delgado, 170 in Inhambane, 139 in Niassa, 125 in Sofala, 107 in Zambezia, 41 in Manica, and 53 in Nampula.

This is the second largest number of recoveries reported in a single day. It brings the total number of recoveries to 37,570, which is 66.4 of all those diagnosed in Mozambique with the coronavirus.

The number of Covid-19 active cases has now fallen to 18,415 (down from 19,333 on Monday). The geographical distribution of the active cases, as of Tuesday, was as follows: Maputo city, 11,560 (62.8 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 2,258; Sofala, 2,008; Cabo Delgado, 711; Inhambane, 553; Niassa, 351; Nampula, 240; Gaza, 212; Tete, 205; Manica, 187; and Zambezia, 130.

Source: AIM