Just in: Mozambique registers two more Covid-19 deaths, and 113 new cases

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Just in: Mozambique registers two more Covid-19 deaths, and 113 new cases

6:14 CAT | 30 Dec 2020

File photo: Lusa

Mozambique today (December 30) reported two more Covid-19 deaths, which brings the country’s coronavirus death toll to 165. The Ministry of Health also announced a further 113 confirmed cases of the respiratory disease.

The victims of 44 and 69 years old are Mozambicans and died on Tuesday in hospital units in the city of Maputo, reads a brief distributed to the media by the Ministry of Health (MISAU)

The document also revealed that there are 113 more positive cases of infection with the new coronavirus, raising the total to 18,485, of which 18,169 cases are locally transmitted and 316 imported.

Jovem e idoso morrem de #covid19 na Cidade de Maputo, importados primeiros casos da África do Sul para #Moçambique https://t.co/OYmpHo4GEs pic.twitter.com/npYiZCcDze

— Jornal a Verdade (@verdademz) December 30, 2020

With a further 150 new cases of people recovered, the country accounts for a total of 16,589 (89%) recoveries.

Of the total of 1,727 active cases in Mozambique, the city of Maputo has 1,290, the largest number.

Mozambique has cumulatively tested 270,250 suspected cases of infection since the announcement of the first case on 22 March.

The Covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,791,033 deaths resulting from more than 81.9 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report made by the French agency AFP.

In Africa, there are 64,067 confirmed deaths and more than 2.6 million infected in 55 countries, according to the most recent statistics on the continent’s pandemic.

The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.

Comunicamos os dados oficiais da situação epidemiológica da COVID-19 em Moçambique, relativos ao dia de hoje, 30 de…

Publicado por Ministério da Saúde – MISAU em Quarta-feira, 30 de dezembro de 2020

Source: Lusa