Mozambique: 26 more coronavirus tests come back negative – A Verdade

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Mozambique: 26 more coronavirus tests come back negative – A Verdade

10:33 CAT | 20 Mar 2020

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According to @Verdade, this brings the total of cases tested in Mozambique to 35

Another 26 citizens suspected of being infected with Covid-19 and tested by Mozambican health authorities have come back negative, but the pandemic continues to spread across the African continent, with more than 700 infected in 34 countries and 17 deaths recorded.

Up until yesterday, Thursday 19 March, the National Institute of Health (INS) had tested another 26 suspected cases of the new coronavirus, all of which came back negative, bringing the cumulative number of tests performed in Mozambique to 35.

In Mozambique, a patient is deemed a suspected Covid-19 in the following circumstances:

-Citizen with acute respiratory disease (fever or at least one respiratory symptom such as coughing or difficulty breathing), without any other cause justifying the symptoms and with a history of travelling to or residing in a country or area reporting local transmission.

Citizen with acute respiratory disease who has been in contact with a probable case of Covid-19 in the last 14 days prior to the onset of symptoms may also be tested.

Citizen with severe acute respiratory disease (fever or at least one respiratory symptom such as coughing or difficulty breathing) who requires hospitalisation and does not show any other cause that justifies his clinical condition.

List of countries for mandatory home quarantine updated

The list of countries, the travellers from which, whether Mozambican or not, must remain in mandatory 14-day home quarantine upon entering Mozambique has also been updated and
now includes:

China
South Korea
Iran
Italy
France
Germany
Spain
Switzerland
Denmark
USA
UK
Netherlands
Sweden
Norway
Portugal
Greece
Belgium
Austria
Pakistan
Canada

In Africa, the latest assessment indicates the existence of 729 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus and 17 deaths. Mauritius is the latest country to identify infected citizens (three). Egypt has a cumulative of 210 infected individuals; South Africa has 150. Seven deaths occurred in Algeria, six in Egypt, two in Morocco, one in Burkina Faso and one in Sudan. The World Health Organisation has warned that continent must now “prepare for the worst”, as there are more and more cases of local transmission.

ALSO READ: Africa must ‘wake up’ and ‘prepare for worst’ over virus: WHO

In the rest of the world, while China entered its second day without any new local infections; Europe has 10,221 new Covid-19 patients and 591 dead, 427 of them in Italy and registered on Thursday (19) alone. The American continent registered 4,166 new infections and 50 deaths.

By Adérito Caldeira

Source: A Verdade