Mozambique: 12.year-old dies of Covid-19 in Maputo city

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Mozambique: 12.year-old dies of Covid-19 in Maputo city

8:48 CAT | 03 Aug 2020

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The Mozambican Health Ministry announced on Saturday (August 1) that a twelfth person has died from the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

A Ministry press release said that the latest victim was a 12 year old boy who was admitted to Maputo Central Hospital on 20 July, suffering from an unspecified chronic illness, He was placed in a paediatric isolation ward where he was tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19. The test results came back on 25 July, showing that he was positive for the coronavirus.

He was transferred on 27 July to the isolation ward set up specifically for Covid-19 patients in the Polana Canico neighbourhood. His condition continued to deteriorate, and he died on Saturday.

The Ministry release also announced that, since the first case was diagnosed on 22 March, 58,991 people have been tested for the coronavirus, 1,261 of them in the previous 24 hours. 885 of these tests took place in public facilities, and 376 in private laboratories. The private laboratories only tested samples from Cabo Delgado (261) and Maputo City (115).

Of all the samples tested, 272 were from Cabo Delgado, 256 from Maputo city, 176 from Inhambane, 151 from Nampula, 143 from Manica, 112 from Sofala, 61 from Zambezia, 43 from Maputo province, 29 from Niassa, 12 from Gaza, and six from Tete.

1,218 of the tests proved negative, and 43 were positive for the coronavirus. This brings the total number of cases since the start of the pandemic to 1,907.

40 of the new cases are Mozambicans, two are Zimbabweans and one is a Nigerian. 30 are men or boys and 13 are women or girls. Three are children under the age of 15, six are adolescents and youths aged between 15 and 24. 38 are adults aged between 25 and 64. One was over 65 years old and no age information was available for three cases.

Eleven of the new cases were from Nampula (eight from Nampula city and three from the port of Nacala), Six were from Pemba, capital of Cabo Delgado province, and eight were from Sofala (three from Beira, two from Nhamatanda, and one each from Dondo and Muanza – these figures from the release only add up to seven, not eight). There were also 17 cases from Maputo city, and one from Manhica district in Maputo province.

Following standard Health Ministry procedure, all 43 new cases have been placed in home isolation, and their contacts are being traced.

Currently nine Covid-19 patients are hospitalised in isolation wards, six in Maputo city, two in Nampula and one in Sofala.

The release also announced that a further four patients, two in Cabo Delgado and two in Zambezia, have made a full recovery from Covid-19. This brings the number of recoveries to 645 (which is 33.82 per cent of all positive cases).

As of Saturday (August 1), the geographical distribution of the 1,907 positive cases, by the provinces where they were diagnosed, was as follows: Cabo Delgado, 480; Nampula, 423; Maputo city, 380; Maputo province, 344; Sofala, 57; Tete, 49; Inhambane, 47; Gaza, 40; Zambezia, 40; Niassa, 30; Manica, 17.

The basic Covid-19 statistics for Mozambique were on Saturday (August 1) : 1,907 confirmed cases, of whom 645 have made a full recovery, and 1,248 are active cases. 14 Covid-19 patients have died, 12 from the disease itself, and two from other pathologies.

Source: AIM