Mozambique 16 new Covid-19 cases and 125 recoveries reported on Monday – AIM

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Mozambique 16 new Covid-19 cases and 125 recoveries reported on Monday – AIM

7:00 CAT | 29 Jun 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Monday reported a further 16 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

According to a Monday press release from the Ministry of Health, 11 of the new cases were women and five were men. All were Mozambican citizens. Three were children under the age of 15, including a new born infant, and the oldest case was 45 years old. Eight of the cases were from Maputo city, seven from Cabo Delgado, and one from Gaza.

Since the start of the pandemic, 1,345,349 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 209 of them in the previous 24 hours. 193 of these tests yielded negative results, and the 16 that tested positive raised the total number of positive cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 227,660.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) rose slightly from 7.43 per cent on Sunday to 7.66 per cent on Monday.

Two Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital on Monday, one in Maputo, and one in Inhambane, and no new patients were admitted. The number of people receiving medical care in the Covid-19 wards fell from 14 on Sunday to 11 on Monday – six of them in Maputo and five in Matola. Four of these patients were in intensive care, receiving supplementary oxygen.

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

125 people on Monday were declared to have made a full recovery from Covid-19 (92 in Maputo province, 24 in Gaza and nine in Inhambane). The total number of recoveries now stands at 225,055 which is 98.86 per cent of all cases of the disease ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 fell from 498 on Sunday to 389 on Monday. The geographical distribution of the cases was as follows: Maputo province, 100; Maputo city, 97; Gaza, 66; Inhambane, 47; Cabo Delgado, 29; Sofala, 19; Nampula, 13; Tete, nine; Zambezia, six; and Niassa, three. Manica remained the only province without any active cases.

The Ministry also reported that in the previous 24 hours a further 2,118 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The total number fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 14,490,528. This is 95 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM