Mozambique: 100 new Covid-19 cases and 81 recoveries reported on Thursday – AIM

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Mozambique: 100 new Covid-19 cases and 81 recoveries reported on Thursday – AIM

3:53 CAT | 01 Jul 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Thursday reported a further 100 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 81 recoveries.

According to a Thursday press release from the Ministry of Health, the new cases were 65 women and 35 men. 91 were Mozambican citizens and nine were foreigners (in line with standard practice their nationalities were not disclosed). 10 of the cases were children under the age of 15, including a new born infant. The oldest case was 86 years old.

41 of the new cases were from Inhambane and 27 from Maputo city. There were also eight cases from Cabo Delgado, eight from Nampula, six from Gaza, four from Nampula province, four from Sofala, one from Tete and one from Zambezia. No positive cases were reported from Niassa or Manica.

Since the start of the pandemic, 1,348,165 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 823 of them in the previous 24 hours. 723 of these tests yielded negative results, and the 100 that tested positive raised the total number of positive cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 227,919.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) rose from 8.11 per cent on Wednesday to 12.15 per cent on Thursday.

Two Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital on Thursday, and one new case was admitted, all in Maputo city. The number of people receiving medical care in the Covid-19 wards fell from nine on Wednesday to eight on Thursday – six in Maputo, one in Matola and one in Gaza. Three of these patients were in intensive care, receiving supplementary oxygen.

No deaths from Covid-19 were reported on Wednesday, and so the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remained 2,212.

Of the 81 full recoveries from Covid-19 on Thursday, 28 were in Gaza, 27 in Maputo province, six in Zambezia, and six in Cabo Delgado. The total number of recoveries now stands at 225,314 which is 98.86 per cent of all cases of the disease ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 rose from 370 on Wednesday to 389 on Thursday. The geographical distribution of the cases was as follows: Maputo city, 107; Inhambane, 76; Maputo province, 65; Gaza, 39; Sofala, 34; Nampula, 29; Cabo Delgado, 21; Tete, 10; Zambezia, four; Niassa, three; and Manica, one.

The Ministry also reported that in the previous 24 hours a further 8,875 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. To date, 14,522,470 people have been fully vaccinated against the disease. This is 95.5 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM