Mozambique: 90 new Covid-19 cases and 65 recoveries reported on Thursday – AIM

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Mozambique: 90 new Covid-19 cases and 65 recoveries reported on Thursday – AIM

5:02 CAT | 27 Sep 2021

File photo: O País

The Mozambican health authorities announced on Thursday a further 90 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

According to a Thursday press release from the Health Ministry, since the start of the pandemic, 895,529 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,822 of them in the previous 24 hours.

1,732 of the tests yielded negative results, while 90 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 150,370.

Of the cases identified on Thursday, 51 were women or girls and 39 were men or boys. 13 were children under the age of 15, and six were over 65 years old.

28 of the new cases were from Gaza, 20 from Nampula, 10 from Cabo Delgado, eight from Maputo city, seven from Zambezia, five from Maputo province, four from Niassa, three from Inhambane, two from Tete, two from Manica and one from Sofala.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested who prove to be carrying the coronavirus) on Thursday was five per cent, the same as on Wednesday. In the previous few days, the rate was eight per cent on Tuesday, 5.9 per cent on Monday, 3.7 per cent on Sunday, and four per cent on Saturday.

The provinces with the highest positivity rates were Niassa (40 per cent – but on a very small sample of ten cases, four of which were positive), Gaza (13.3 per cent), Nampula (12.5 per cent), and Zambezia (10 per cent). The lowest rates were found in Sofala (one per cent) and Maputo city (1.3 per cent).

In the same 24 hour period, eight Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (four in Maputo, two in Niassa, one in Inhambane and one in Gaza),and a further eight were admitted (four in Maputo, two in Gaza, one in Matola and one in Manica).

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities fell slightly, from 44 on Wednesday to 43 on Thursday. 21 of these patients (48.8 per cent) were in Maputo. There were also nine patients in Nampula, six in Niassa, three in Inhambane, two in Zambezia, one in Gaza and one in Matola. No Covid-19 patients were hospitalised in Cabo Delgado, Tete, Manica or Sofala.

The Ministry release reported one further death from Covid-19. This victim was a 51 year old Mozambican man, who died in Manica. The total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique now stands at 1,907.

Over the previous 24 hours, 65 people were declared to have made a full recovery from Covid-19, all of them in Gaza. The total number of recoveries is now 146,155, or 97.2 per cent of all those diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases rose from 2,280 on Wednesday to 2,304 on Thursday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 892 (38.7 per cent of the total); Nampula, 547; Maputo province, 302; Cabo Delgado, 274; Zambezia, 78; Niassa, 70; Inhambane, 60; Gaza, 55; Sofala, 11; Manica, nine; and Tete, six.

Source: O País