Mozambique 16 new Covid-19 cases and 50 recoveries reported on Monday – AIM

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Mozambique 16 new Covid-19 cases and 50 recoveries reported on Monday – AIM

4:32 CAT | 07 Jun 2022

The Mozambican health authorities on Monday reported a further 16 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 50 full recoveries.

According to a Monday press release from the Ministry of Health, 12 of the new cases were men and four were women. Their ages ranged between seven and 84. 13 were Mozambican citizens and three were foreigners (as is normal practice, the release did not disclose their nationalities).

Nine of Monday’s cases were diagnosed in Maputo city, five in Maputo province, and two in the northern province of Cabo Delgado. No cases were reported from the other eight provinces

Since the start of the pandemic, 1,330,845 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 183 of them on Monday. 167 of these tests yielded negative results, and the 16 positive cases brought the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 225,984.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) fell from 9.92 per cent on Sunday to 8.74 per cent on Monday.

The Ministry reported no deaths from Covid-19 on Monday, and so the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remained 2,204.

Two Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital on Monday, both of them in Maputo city. Two new patients were admitted, one in Maputo and one in Niassa. Five people were under medical treatment in the Covid-19 wards, three in Maputo, one in Gaza and one in Niassa. None were in intensive care.

Of the 50 recoveries, 17 were from Gaza, 15 from Maputo province and 14 from Maputo city. There were three recoveries in Nampula and one in Sofala. The total number of recoveries now stands at 223,532, which is 98.9 per cent of all cases of Covid-19 ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 fell from 278 on Sunday to 244 on Monday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 112; Maputo province, 87; Gaza, 24; Inhambane, 10; Cabo Delgado, six; Niassa, two; Sofala, two; and Nampula, one. There were no active cases in Zambezia, Tete or Manica.

The Ministry release also reported that, over the previous 24 hours, only 15 people were vaccinated against Covid-19, all of them in Maputo city. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease was 14,275,523, which is 93.9 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.