Just in: Mozambique reports one more Covid-19 death, and 122 new cases

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Just in: Mozambique reports one more Covid-19 death, and 122 new cases

5:02 CAT | 24 Nov 2020

File photo: Lusa

Mozambique today reported yet another Covid-19 death, bringing the toll to 127, and 122 new infections, the Ministry of Health announced today.

A 40-year-old Mozambican man lost his life in a hospital in Gaza province after his health deteriorated, said a statement to update data on the pandemic in the country.

With the 122 new cases announced today, Mozambique accounts for a cumulative of 15,231 cases, of which 14,924 are locally transmitted and 307 cases are imported.

In the document, the ministry announces another 179 cases reported as recovered, increasing the total to 13,401 (88%) recoveries.

Mozambique has a cumulative of 588 inpatients.

The Mozambican capital, the city of Maputo, has the highest number of active cases, with 1,510, followed by Cabo Delgado province, with 38, with the remaining provinces having less than 30 cases.

The country has tested a total of 224,854 suspected cases, since the first confirmed infection was announced on March 22.

Among the Portuguese-speaking African countries, Mozambique is the one with the highest number of Covid-19 confirmed cases, while Angola is the one that accounts for the most deaths related to the novel coronavirus.

Angola records 337 deaths and 14,634 cases, followed by Mozambique (127 deaths and 15,231 cases), Cape Verde (104 deaths and 10,302 cases), Equatorial Guinea (85 deaths and 5,137 cases), Guinea-Bissau (43 deaths and 2,422 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (17 deaths and 974 cases).

The Covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,388,590 deaths resulting from more than 58.6 million cases of infection worldwide.

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

Source: Lusa