Mozambique: 40 new Covid-19 cases, no deaths and six recoveries reported on Saturday – AIM

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Mozambique: 40 new Covid-19 cases, no deaths and six recoveries reported on Saturday – AIM

6:01 CAT | 01 Aug 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Saturday reported 40 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and only six recoveries.

According to a Saturday press release from the Ministry of Health, 27 of the new cases were women and 13 were men. All were Mozambican citizens. One of the cases was an infant under one year of age, and the oldest case was 70 years old.

Ten of the new cases were from Gaza, and nine were from Zambezia. There were also six cases each from Sofala and Maputo city, four from Nampula, two from Inhambane and one each from Niassa, Tete and Maputo province. No cases were reported from Cabo Delgado, or Manica.

Since the start of the pandemic, 1,368,086 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 714 of them in the previous 24 hours. 674 of these tests yielded negative results, and the 40 who tested positive raised the total number of positive cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 229,564.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) rose slightly, from 4.93 per cent on Thursday, to 5.09 per cent on Friday, to 5.6 per cent on Saturday.

No Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital on Saturday, and one new case was admitted, in Niassa. The number of patients under medical care in the Covid-19 wards rose from 10 on Friday to 11 on Saturday. Four of these patients were in Maputo city, four in Niassa, and one each in Cabo Delgado, Zambezia and Inhambane.

All the six recoveries reported on Saturday were from Zambezia. The total number of recoveries rose to 226,997, which is 98.88 per cent of all cases of Covid-19 ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 rose from 285 on Thursday to 314 on Friday, and to 348 on Saturday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Sofala, 71; Zambezia, 63; Gaza, 62; Maputo city, 41; Tete, 27; Nampula, 24; Cabo Delgado, 19; Inhambane, 19; Niassa, 16; Maputo province, five; and Manica, one.

The Ministry release also reported that over the previous 24 hours, there were no vaccinations against Covid-19, even though all the vaccination posts throughout the country are supposed to be open seven days a week. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease currently stands at 14,612,271, which is 96.1 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM