Mozambique: 39 new Covid-19 cases and 64 recoveries reported on Monday – AIM

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Mozambique: 39 new Covid-19 cases and 64 recoveries reported on Monday – AIM

7:45 CAT | 20 Jul 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Monday reported a further 39 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 64 recoveries.

According to a Monday press release from the Ministry of Health, 23 of Monday’s new cases were women and 16 were men. All were Mozambican citizens.

10 were children under the age of 15, including a new-born infant. The oldest patient was 62. 26 of the cases were from Gaza, eight from Sofala, four from Nampula, and one from Maputo city. No new cases were reported from any of the other seven provinces.

Since the start of the pandemic, 1,360,359 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 370 of them in the previous 24 hours. 331 of these tests yielded negative results, and the 39 who tested positive raised the total number of positive cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 229,077.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) rose from 5.29 per cent on Sunday to 10.54 per cent on Monday.

One Covid-19 patient was discharged from hospital, in Maputo, and three new cases were admitted, all in Niassa. The number of patients receiving medical care in the Covid-19 wards rose from five on Sunday to seven on Monday – five of these patients were in Niassa, with one each in Cabo Delgado and Inhambane. None of these patients were in intensive care.

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

Of the 64 full recoveries, 51 were from Cabo Delgado, and 13 were from Maputo province. The total number of recoveries rose to 226,438, which is 98.85 per cent of all cases of Covid-19 ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 fell from 445 on Sunday to 420 on Monday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Gaza, 84; Sofala, 72; Nampula, 59; Zambezia, 57; Maputo city, 55; Inhambane, 35; Cabo Delgado, 33; Tete, 13; Niassa, nine; and Manica, three. No active cases were reported from Maputo province.

The Ministry release also reported that, over the previous 24 hours, a further 2,548 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 14,591,662. This is 95.9 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM