Mozambique: 13 new Covid-19 cases and 12 recoveries reported on Wednesday – AIM

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Mozambique: 13 new Covid-19 cases and 12 recoveries reported on Wednesday – AIM

7:46 CAT | 06 May 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Wednesday reported a further 13 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

This was a significant increase – no new cases at all had been reported on Tuesday, and only one on Monday and two on Sunday.

The new cases were nine men and four women, aged between four and 54. Seven were Mozambican citizens and six were foreigners (but their nationalities were not revealed). Six of the cases were from Inhambane, four from Maputo city, and one each from Cabo Delgado. Manica and Gaza.

According to a Wednesday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,314,422 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 541 of them in the previous 24 hours.

528 of these tests yielded negative results, while the 13 positive cases raised the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 225,400.

The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the virus) rose from zero on Tuesday to 2.4 per cent on Wednesday.

Once again, the Ministry release reported no further deaths from Covid-19, and so the total death toll in Mozambique from the disease remains 2,201.

There was just one Covid-19 patient still in hospital, in Manica province. He was in intensive care, receiving supplementary oxygen. All the other Covid-19 facilities throughout the country were empty.

The Ministry release reported a further 12 recoveries from Covid-19 (six in Cabo Delgado, five in Gaza, and one in Tete). This brought the total number of recoveries to 223,155, which is fractionally more than 99 per cent of all cases of Covid-19 ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 rose from 39 on Tuesday to 40 on Wednesday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Inhambane, 10; Maputo city, eight; Gaza, six; Sofala, five; Tete, three; two each in Nampula, Zambezia and Manica; one in Cabo Delgado; and one in Maputo province. Niassa remained the only province with no active cases.

The Ministry release also reported that over the previous 24 hours, a further 14,382 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 13,927,330, which is 91.6 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM