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The Mozambican health authorities announced on Thursday six new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.
A Thursday press release from the Ministry of Health said that, since the start of the pandemic, 1,308,458 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 729 of them in the previous 24 hours.
723 of these tests yielded negative results. The six positive tests brought the total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Mozambique to 225,351.
The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the virus) fell from 1.29 per cent on Wednesday to 0.82 per cent on Thursday.
Of the new cases identified on Thursday, four were women and two were men. They were all of Mozambican nationality and aged between 30 and 60. Three were diagnosed in Gaza, two in Cabo Delgado and one in Maputo city.
In the same 24 hour period, no Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, and one new case was admitted, in Tete province. Three patients were under medical care in the Covid-19 wards, two in Tete and one in Maputo city. The latter was under intensive care, receiving supplementary oxygen.
The Ministry release reported no further deaths from Covid-19, and so the total death toll in Mozambique from the disease remains 2,201. There were also no recoveries from Covid-19, and so the total number of recoveries remains 223,088, which is almost exactly 99 per cent of all cases of Covid-19 ever diagnosed in Mozambique.
The number of active cases of Covid-19 rose from 52 on Wednesday to 58 on Thursday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Cabo Delgado, 13; Gaza, 13; Nampula, 11; Maputo city, seven; Sofala, five; Manica, three; Tete, three; and one each in Zambezia, Inhambane and Maputo province. Niassa was the only province with no active cases.
The Ministry release also reported that, over the previous 24 hours, a further 35,150 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The total number fully vaccinated against the disease is now 13.723,138 – which is 90.2 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.
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