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Health authorities tested 43 more suspected cases of Covid-19 in Mozambique between Thursday (26) and Friday (27), and “all turned out to be negative for the new coronavirus”. The National Director of Public Health reiterated that the seven individuals diagnosed as infected remained in isolation at home in Maputo city, as well as the 96 contacts they had made.
“In Mozambique, at the level of the National Institute of Health, up until today, March 27, 2020, 141 suspected cases were tested, 43 of them in the last 24 hours. Of the new cases tested, all proved to be negative for the coronavirus. Therefore, currently, our country has seven positive cases, of which six are imported and one is locally transmitted. Currently, a cumulative total of 96 contacts are being monitored,” Dr Rosa Marlene told a press conference on Friday.
Meanwhile, another positive case was confirmed on Saturday.
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@Verdade has established that, among the (mostly female) suspected cases, 29 are Mozambican citizens.
According to the National Director of Public Health, those identified as positive continue to suffer only mild symptoms and did not require hospital treatment. They remain in isolation at home in Maputo.
Dr. Rosa Marlene also clarified that everybody who had had contact with the seven infected individuals were being monitored by health authorities in the Mozambican capital.
@Verdade calculates that only 1,367 travellers were in quarantine this Friday (27), reconfirming that the almost 10,000 Mozambicans who returned from South Africa in the last few days were not observing the mandatory 14-day home quarantine protocol applied to everybody entering Mozambique, regardless of their nationality and where they came from – more, if they had arrived from a country where Covid-19 was diagnosed in more than 1,000 people and had caused two deaths or more.
By Adérito Caldeira
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