Mozambique: 28 new Covid-19 cases, one recovery, one death reported on Wednesday – AIM

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Mozambique: 28 new Covid-19 cases, one recovery, one death reported on Wednesday – AIM

3:19 CAT | 11 Aug 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Wednesday reported a further 28 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, one recovery and one death.

According to a Wednesday press release from the Ministry of Health, all of the new cases were Mozambican citizens. 14 were men and 14 were women. They varied in age from three to 75 years old.

11 cases were from Zambezia, four from Niassa, three from Sofala., two each from Tete, Gaza. Inhambane and Maputo city, and one from Maputo province. (This adds up to 27 new cases, not the 28 mentioned at the beginning of the press release).

Since the start of the pandemic, 1,373,368 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 749 of them in the previous 24 hours. 723 of these tests yielded negative results, and the 27 who tested positive raised the total number of positive cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 229,805.

One Covid-19 patient was discharged from hospital (in Cabo Delgado) and no new cases were admitted. The number of people undergoing medical treatment in the Covid-19 wards fell from 10 on Tuesday to eight on Wednesday. Four of these patients were in Maputo city, two in Niassa, one in Zambezia and one in Inhambane. One was in intensive care, receiving supplementary oxygen.

A 65 year old Mozambican woman died of Covid-19 in Maputo on Wednesday. This brought the total Mozambican death toll from the disease to 2,217.

The sole recovery reported on Wednesday was in Zambezia. The total number of recoveries now stands at 227,313, which is 98.92 per cent of all Covid-19 cases ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 rose from 245 on Tuesday to 273 on Wednesday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Sofala, 83; Zambezia, 70; Maputo city, 35; Tete, 24; Niassa, 12; Nampula, 12; Cabo Delgado, 11; Inhambane, 10; Gaza, 10; Maputo province, four; and Manica, two.
The Ministry release also reported that on Wednesday a further 4,743 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 14,635,574, which is 96.2 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.
(AIM)

Source: AIM