Mozambique announces another Covid-19 death, and 160 new cases – Watch

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Mozambique announces another Covid-19 death, and 160 new cases – Watch

11:35 CAT | 02 Oct 2020

Scree grab: MISAU

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported another Covid-19 patient death. This brings the Mozambican death toll from Covid-19 to 62.

The 70-year-old Mozambican man died “after his clinical condition worsened during hospitalisation in the city of Maputo,”said the National Director for Health Survey and Monitoring Sérgio Chicumbe, during a pandemic update at the Ministry of Health in Maputo.

On Thursday (October 1), the country reported yet another 160 new cases, bringing the total to 8,888, of which 8,593 are locally transmitted and 295 are imported.

Maputo city recorded the largest number of new cases (110), corresponding to 68.75% of the country total reported yesterday. It was followed by Maputo province, with 26 cases (16.25%).

The health authorities declared an additional 341 people recovered, bringing the total to 5,573 (62%).

Fifty-one patients are currently hospitalised in isolation centres, Chicumbe said, of whom 30 are in a serious condition. “Inpatients suffer from several chronic pathologies, the most common of which are arterial hypertension and diabetes,” he explained.

Since the announcement of the first case on March 22, Mozambique has tested a total of 140,310 suspected cases.

The Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than one million lives and more than 34 million cases of infection worldwide. Africa has confirmed 35,961 deaths among more than 1.4 million people infected across 55 countries, according to the most recent statistics for the continent.

Among Portuguese-speaking African countries, Angola leads in the number of deaths and Mozambique in number of cases. Angola has recorded 183 deaths and 4,972 cases, followed by Equatorial Guinea (83 deaths and 5,030 cases), Mozambique (62 deaths and 8,888 cases), Cape Verde (60 deaths and 6,024 cases), Guinea-Bissau (39 deaths and 2,362 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (15 dead and 911 cases).

Source: Lusa / Livenews48 / MISAU