Covid-19 transmission chain apparently breaks in Maputo city and Maputo province – A Verdade

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Covid-19 transmission chain apparently breaks in Maputo city and Maputo province – A Verdade

4:15 CAT | 28 Apr 2020

Photo: A Verdade

The new coronavirus transmission chain has apparently been broken in the city and province of Maputo, with no records of new cases for four days. This Monday (27), excluding the testing any of the hundreds of suspected cases in Cabo Delgado province, there was no record of new Covid-19 patients in Mozambique. Meanwhile, @Verdade learned that Total and ExxonMobil oil workers in other African countries are being diagnosed with the new coronavirus as well.

Even if the prevention measures against the pandemic are not fully complied with in Maputo city and province, the transmission chain of the virus is apparently broken. The last person infected with Covid-19 was diagnosed on the 23rd (a Mozambican man over 30 years of age living in Matola), and was found to have contracted the virus in the only active transmission chain in Mozambique, which still persists in Cabo Delgado province.

So, on Monday (27), testing only 42 suspected cases in Maputo city and two others in Nampula province, no new patients were diagnosed in Mozambique, which continues to have a cumulative total of 76 infected, among whom nine have fully recovered.

Coronavirus2604-mapaCDelgado-1 — Source: Ministry of Health

“A joint delegation from the Ministry of Health and the INS left for Cabo Delgado, and today were organising mass testing in Afungi. At the end of the morning they met with the local authorities to organise the operations. The priority for suspicious cases was given in matters of biosafety and isolation, and we believe that we will have a considerable flow of samples from Cabo Delgado in the next few hours,” National Director for the Area of Inquiry and Health Monitoring Dr. Sérgio Chicumbe explained.

The epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic in Mozambique is currently the three Total camps on the Afungi peninsula, where 47 infected people are convalescing at home, and where transmission is still active, with another seven patients in the city of Pemba.

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@Verdade learned that workers at the French oil company leading the Mozambique LNG project have been diagnosed as infected with the coronavirus at Total’s facilities in Congo-Brazzaville [Republic of the Congo].

According to Mozambican health authorities, at least 2,500 workers left the Total camps in Cabo Delgado province in the week when the “Afungi index case” was identified.

It may also be important to test workers from another oil company operating in Mozambique, after 30 workers at ExxonMobil facilities in Equatorial Guinea tested positive for Covid-19.

By Adérito Caldeira

Source: A Verdade