Just in: Mozambique reports 11 Covid-19 deaths and 907 new cases

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Just in: Mozambique reports 11 Covid-19 deaths and 907 new cases

7:08 CAT | 28 Jan 2021

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Mozambique today reported 11 Covid-19 deaths, bringing the coronavirus death toll to 347, and a further 907 new cases, the Ministry of Health announced today.

All the fatalities are of Mozambican nationality, eight men and three women, aged between 48 and 82, reads press release from the Ministry of Health. The deaths were declared on Wednesday and on Thursday.

Unlike in its earlier press releases, in its recent briefs the Ministry f Health gives no indication of where in Mozambique do patients die. MISAU has also stopped detailing the ages of each one of the victims, which it did not so long ago. In the past few days, MISAU only releases the ages of the youngest and of the oldest person in the group whose deaths are reported on a certain day.

Mozambique currently has a cumulative total of 35,833 officially confirmed cases, 63% of which are reported to have recovered, with 263 patients still hospitalised in the country .

Between Wednesday and Thursday, there were 47 new hospital admissions and 31 discharges.

Of the 263 hospitalised patients, 82.5% are in the city of Maputo, the epicentre of the disease, with 6,481 active cases in a total of 12,732 and 247 deaths.

The country has tested cumulatively, since the announcement of the first case in March, 334,351 suspected cases, of which 2,422 in the past 24 hours.

Of the 907 newly diagnosed cases reported today, the city of Maputo recorded the largest number, 326 . It was followed by the province of Maputo,with 126.

256 new recoveries were reported today, bringing the cumulative to 22.750, that is, 63.5% of the cumulative of confirmed cases since the outbreak in March 2020.

At the moment Mozambique has 12,732 active cases,of which 6,481 are in Maputo city.

In the last 24 hours, Africa recorded a further 1,039 deaths from Covid-19 for a total of 87,937 deaths, and 20,177 new cases of infection, according to the latest official pandemic data on the continent.

Southern Africa remains the most affected region, with 1,665,050 confirmed cases and 46,837 dead. South Africa alone, the country hardest hit by Covid-19 on the continent, has 1,430,648 cases and 42,550 deaths.

The Covid-19 pandemic caused at least 2,176,000 deaths resulting from more than 100 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report made by the French agency AFP.

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

Source: Lusa / O País