Covid-19. Two more deaths and 175 new cases reported in Mozambique – Watch

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Covid-19. Two more deaths and 175 new cases reported in Mozambique – Watch

9:39 CAT | 26 Oct 2020

Mozambique reported this Monday (October 26) two more deaths from Covid-19, bringing the death toll from the disease to 88, and 175 new positive cases, which rises the cumulative of confirmed coronavirus cases to 12,161, announced the Ministry of Health [MISAU].

“These are patients of 36 and 83 years of age, both men of Mozambican nationality, who died after the worsening of their clinical condition, during the period of hospitalisation in a hospital in the city of Maputo”, says the Ministry of Health, in a data update note released to the media.

Health authorities have also announced 175 new cases, bringing to 12,161 the cumulative number of confirmed cases since the outbreak in the country, of which 11,857 are locally transmitted and 304 are imported.

Mozambique currently has a cumulative number of 408 people hospitalised, and a total of 9,254 (76%) cases reported as recovered.

The city of Maputo continues to record the highest number of active cases, with 2,014. It is followed by Maputo province, with 482 active cases. The remaining nine provinces in the country have less than 70..

Since the announcement of the first case on March 22, Mozambique has cumulatively tested 181,772 suspected cases of Covid-19.

Among African countries that have Portuguese as their official language, Mozambique accounts for the most cases of infection by the new coronavirus, while Angola is the country that registers the most deaths.

Angola records 268 deaths and 9,381 cases, followed by Cape Verde (94 deaths and 8,396 cases), Mozambique (88 deaths and 12,161 cases), Equatorial Guinea (83 deaths and 5,079 cases), Guinea-Bissau (41 deaths and 2,413 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (15 deaths and 935 cases).

The Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 1.1 million lives and more than 43 million cases of infection have been registered worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.

In Africa, there are 41,262 confirmed deaths in more than 1.7 million people infected across 55 countries, according to the latest statistics on the pandemic in the continent.