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Covid-19: WHO strengthens diagnostic capacity in Mozambique
4:07 CAT | 29 Jun 2020
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) is strengthening Mozambique’s Covid-19 diagnostic capacity today with the delivery of a new laboratory testing machine, the organisation has announced.
“Like other countries, Mozambique is registering an increase in the number of Covid-19 cases,” the WHO says, so “strengthening the diagnostic capacity for the new coronavirus remains one of the most important interventions in containing the spread of the disease”.
The new Multiplex qPCR device being delivered to the Ministry of Health today can identify and quantify simultaneously “multiple pathogenic organisms, including viruses, bacteria, parasites and fungi that cause infectious diseases”.
This is the second of these devices to be donated by WHO, and comes in addition to other support, such as technical teams, temperature monitoring chambers at passenger control points, personal protective equipment and reagents.
According to health authority figures, Mozambique had, by Sunday (June 28), tested 28,586 suspected Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began on March 11, with a positive rate of 3%.
The country had, by Sunday, accumulated a total of 859 infected persons, with five fatalities and 228 accounted fully recovered.
Source: Lusa
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