Mozambique: Coronavirus death toll reaches 120 – AIM

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Mozambique: Coronavirus death toll reaches 120 – AIM

4:29 CAT | 20 Nov 2020

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The Mozambican health authorities on Thursday announced the death from the Covid-19 respiratory disease of an 89 year old man, bringing the total death toll from the disease to 120.

According to a Ministry of Health press release, the latest victim was hospitalised in Maputo, but his condition did not improve, and he died on Thursday morning.

The release said that, since the start of the pandemic, 216,448 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,513 of them in the previous 24 hours. Of the samples tested, 623 were from Maputo city, 245 from Nampula, 188 from Cabo Delgado, 187 from Sofala, 109 from Maputo province, 84 from Niassa, 60 from Zambezia, 11 from Zambezia and six from Tete.

1,419 of these tests gave negative results, and 94 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This brings the number of positive cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 14,723. Of the new cases, 91 are Mozambicans, one is South African one Kenyan and one Portuguese. 52 are women or girls and 42 are men or boys. Three are children under 15 years of age, and six are over 65 years old. In six cases, no age information was given.

The vast majority of the new cases were from Maputo city (67) and Maputo province (19). These cases accounted for 91.5 per cent of the total. There were also three cases from Cabo Delgado, two from Zambezia, two from Nampula and one from Tete.

In line with standard Ministry of Health procedure, all 94 new cases are now in home isolation, and their contacts are being traced.

In the same 24 hour period, the Ministry release said, eight Covid-19 patients had been discharged from hospital, all in Maputo city, and three new patients were admitted (two in Maputo and one in Tete). Currently, 40 people are under medical care in the Covid-19 isolation wards (37 in Maputo, one in Sofala, one in Zambezia and one in Tete).

The release said that 25 of those hospitalised are men and 15 are women. The clinical state of 25 is described as “moderate”, but 13 are seriously ill and two are in a critical condition.

The Ministry added that a further 95 people have made a full recovery from Covid-19 (77 in Maputo city, 12 in Zambezia and six in Inhambane). This brings the total number of recoveries to 12,849 (87.3 per cent of all those diagnosed with the coronavirus).

There were, by Thursday, 1,750 active cases of Covid-19 in the country, distributed as follows: Maputo city, 1,386 (79 per cent of the total); Cabo Delgado, 190; Maputo province, 32; Gaza, 32; Zambezia, 24; Nampula, 24; Manica, 21; Sofala, 21; Tete, 11; Inhambane, 10; Niassa, six.

Source: AIM