Mozambique coronavirus cases rise to 6,161 – Watch

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Mozambique coronavirus cases rise to 6,161 – Watch

11:26 CAT | 18 Sep 2020

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Mozambique on Thursday [September 18] reported 167 more cases of Covid-19, with no new deaths, bring to 6,161 the number of infections, with 39 deaths, since the pandemic was declared six months ago.

Tests on 1,032 samples collected between 4 to 15 September led to the cases reported yesterday, the Mozambican Ministry of Health (Misau) announced. [Full press release, in Portuguese HERE]

The city of Maputo had the majority of newly diagnosed cases (73), 43.7% of the cases announced yesterday, followed by the province of Zambézia with 43 new cases (26.7%).

Of the new cases, 165 are Mozambican nationals and two are foreigners – a South African and a French citizen.

All 167 of the new cases are described as locally transmitted. Of these, ten are children under 5 years of age and 11 are individuals over 65 years of age. The 25-34 year old age group registered 51 cases, corresponding to 30.5% of the total cases reported yesterday.

On Thursday, health authorities also reported a further 126 people fully recovered, bringing cumulative recoveries to 3,393 (55% of total cases).

Mozambique has performed 119,689 Covid-19 tests and, as of Thursday, had 2,725 active cases, with 142 people hospitalised (cumulative total) with the disease, 44 of them under medical care in isolation centres.

The Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 941,473 lives and infected more than 29.9 million people in 196 countries and territories worldwide, according to a report by the French AFP press agency.

In Africa, there have been 33,251 confirmed deaths among the 1.3 million people infected in 55 countries, according to the latest statistics for the continent. The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.

Source: Lusa / MISAU