Mozambique: 18 new Covid-19 cases and 28 recoveries reported in Sunday – AIM

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Mozambique: 18 new Covid-19 cases and 28 recoveries reported in Sunday – AIM

6:21 CAT | 18 Jul 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Sunday reported a further 18 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 28 recoveries.

According to a Sunday press release from the Ministry of Health, 10 of the new cases were men and eight were women. Four were children under the age of 15, including an infant under one year of age. The oldest case was 89 years old.

Ten of the new cases were from Maputo city, three from Cabo Delgado, three from Nampula, and two from Sofala. No cases were reported from the other seven provinces.

Since the start of the pandemic, 1,359,989 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 340 of them in the previous 24 hours. 322 of these tests yielded negative results, and the 18 who tested positive raised the total number of positive cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 229,038.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) fell from 10.61 per cent on Friday, to 8.65 per cent on Saturday, and 5.29 per cent on Sunday.

One Covid-19 patient was discharged from hospital on Sunday, in Zambezia, and a new case was admitted, in Inhambane. The number of patients receiving medical care in the Covid-19 wards remained unchanged from Saturday at five – two in Niassa, and one each in Maputo, Cabo Delgado and Inhambane. None of these patients were in intensive care.

No further deaths were reported on Sunday, and so the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remained 2,215.

Of the 28 full recoveries, 16 were from Sofala and 12 were from Zambezia. The total number of recoveries rose to 226,374, which is 98.84 per cent of all cases of Covid-19 ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 rose from 434 on Friday to 455 on Saturday and then fell back to 445 on Sunday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Cabo Delgado, 84; Sofala, 64; Gaza, 58; Zambezia, 57; Nampula, 55; Maputo city, 54; Inhambane, 35; Tete, 13; Maputo province, 13; Niassa, nine; and Manica, three.

The Ministry press release reported that nobody was vaccinated against Covid-19 on Sunday. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 14,589,114, which is 95.9 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM