Mozambique: 47 new Covid-19 cases and 122 recoveries reported on Thursday – AIM

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Mozambique: 47 new Covid-19 cases and 122 recoveries reported on Thursday – AIM

4:06 CAT | 15 Jul 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities reported on Thursday 47 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 122 recoveries.

According to a Thursday press release from the Ministry of Health, 32 of the new cases were women and 15 were men. 45 were Mozambican citizens, and two were foreigners (in line with normal practice, their nationalities were not divulged). Nine were children under the age of 15, including an infant less than one year old. The oldest patient was 72 years old.

The new cases were scattered across the country – 12 in Zambezia, 10 in Sofala, seven in Maputo city, six in Maputo province, five in Nampula, four in Gaza, two in Inhambane and one in Cabo Delgado. No cases were reported from Niassa, Tete or Manica.

Since the start of the pandemic, 1,358,293 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 764 of them in the previous 24 hours. 717 of these tests yielded negative results, and the 47 who tested positive raised the total number of positive cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 228,887.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) fell from 8.53 per cent on Wednesday to 6.15 per cent on Thursday.

Two Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, both in Maputo, on Thursday, and one new case was admitted (in Niassa). The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 wards fell from eight on Wednesday to six on Thursday – two in Maputo, two in Niassa, one in Cabo Delgado and one in Zambezia. None of these patients were in intensive care.

The Ministry reported one further death from Covid-19. The victim was a 58 year old woman who died in Maputo city. This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 2,215.

Of the 122 people declared to have made a full recovery on Thursday, 72 were from Maputo city, 28 from Inhambane, 11 from Nampula and 11 from Maputo province. The total number of recoveries rose to 226,271, which is 98.86 per cent of all cases of Covid-19 ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 fell from 473 on Wednesday to 398 on Thursday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Cabo Delgado, 67; Sofala, 63; Gaza, 62; Zambezia, 55; Nampula, 50; Inhambane, 42; Maputo city, 38; Tete, seven; Maputo province, six; Niassa, five; and Manica, two.

The Ministry also reported that, in the previous 24 hours, 2,519 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 14,583,556. This is 95.9 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

The best provincial vaccination rates are from Nampula, which has vaccinated 105.2 per cent of its target figure, Zambezia (101 per cent) and Tete (100.9 per cent). Easily the lowest vaccination rate comes from Maputo city, which has only vaccinated 71.7 per cent of its target figure.

Source: AIM