Mozambique: Another Covid-19 death and 103 new cases reported on Sunday – AIM report

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Mozambique: Another Covid-19 death and 103 new cases reported on Sunday – AIM report

7:09 CAT | 08 Sep 2020

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The Mozambican health authorities on Sunday announced another death from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, bringing the known death toll to 27.

According to a press release from the Ministry of Health, the latest victim was a 57 year old Mozambican man, who was hospitalised in the isolation ward of the Polana Canico general hospital in Maputo, on 31 August. He was suffering, not only from Covid-19, but also from other, unspecified chronic diseases and a serious respiratory illness.

During his period of hospitalisation, the patient’s condition continued to deteriorate, and he was declared dead on Saturday morning.

The release added that, since the first case was diagnosed on 22 March, 104,376 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,920 of them in the previous 24 hours. Of these samples, 1,366 were tested in public facilities, and 554 in private laboratories. The samples tested in the private sector came from three provinces, Cabo Delgado (279), Maputo city (257) and Tete (18).

Of all the samples tested, 846 were from Maputo city, 310 from Cabo Delgado, 198 from Zambezia, 169 from Inhambane, 118 from Gaza, 100 from Maputo province, 84 from Tete, 62 from Nampula, 14 from Sofala, 10 from Manica, and nine from Niassa.

Of these tests, 1,817 were negative, but 103 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This brought the number of positive cases tested in Mozambique since the start of the pandemic to 4,444. Of the new cases, 101 are Mozambicans and two are Portuguese. 64 are men or boys and 39 are women or girls. Two are children under the age of five, and seven are more than 65 years old.

The great majority – 85 – of the new cases are from Maputo city, and two are from the neighbouring city of Matola. Four are from Pemba, capital of Cabo Delgado, and a further four are from Inhambane (one from Inhambane city, and one each from the districts of Jangamo, Massinga and Pande). Two cases are from the Gaza provincial capital of Xai-Xai, two are from Zambezia (one from Quelimane city, and one from Nicoadala), and two are from the Niassa provincial capital of Lichinga. One case is from Nampula city, and one is from the Manica provincial capital of Chimoio.

In accordance with standard Ministry of Health procedure, all 103 new cases are in home isolation, and their contacts are being traced.

Over the same 24 hour period, one Covid-19 patient hospitalized in Maputo city was discharged, but two others were admitted, one in Maputo and one in Tete. Currently 18 people are under medical care in Covid-19 isolation wards – 16 in Maputo city and two in Tete.

The Ministry release also announced that a further 36 people have made a full recovery from Covid-19, all of them in Maputo province. This brings the total number of recoveries to 2,615 (58.8 per cent of all Covid-19 cases).

As of Sunday, the geographical distribution of all 4,444 positive cases, by the provinces where they were diagnosed, was as follows: Maputo city, 1,677; Maputo province, 807; Cabo Delgado, 612; Nampula, 546; Gaza, 176; Sofala, 164; Niassa, 123; Inhambane, 96; Manica, 94; Tete, 85; Zambezia, 63.

As the days pass, so the concentration of new Covid-19 cases in Maputo city becomes ever clearer. The capital accounts for 38 per cent of all cases diagnosed since the start of the pandemic, while the number of cases diagnosed in what were previously regarded as Covid-19 hotspots, such as Nampula and Pemba cities, has slowed to a trickle.

The main Covid-19 statistics for Mozambique were by Sunday (September 6): 4,444 confirmed cases, of whom 2,615 have made a complete recovery and 1,798 are active cases. 31 Covid-19 patients have died, 27 from the disease, and four from other causes.

Source: AIM