Mozambique | Covid-19: 1,120 recoveries, 240 new cases and two deaths reported on Tuesday – AIM

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Mozambique | Covid-19: 1,120 recoveries, 240 new cases and two deaths reported on Tuesday – AIM

7:00 CAT | 27 Jan 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Tuesday reported a further 1,120 recoveries from the Covid-19 respiratory disease (337 in Niassa, 336 in Maputo province, 211 in Inhambane, 175 in Maputo city and 61 in Cabo Delgado).

The total number of recoveries has now reached 206,393, which is 92.6 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

According to a Tuesday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,209,826 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 3,399 of them in the previous 24 hours.

3,159 of these tests yielded negative results, while 240 people tested positive for the virus – a sharp increase on the 56 positive cases detected on Monday (but there were only 801 people tested on Monday).

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be infected by the virus) was much the same – 6.99 per cent on Monday, and 7.06 per cent on Tuesday.

Of the new cases diagnosed on Tuesday, 132 were women and 108 were men. 28 were under 15 years of age. The largest number of cases were from Niassa (46 – 19.2 per cent), and from Maputo city and Zambezia (41 – 17.1 per cent – each). There were also 30 cases from Maputo province, 23 from Sofala, 22 from Gaza, 11 from Inhambane, eight from Cabo Delgado, eight from Nampula, five from Tete, and five from Manica.

Over the same 24 hour period, 17 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (nine in Maputo, three in Gaza, three in Manica, one in Niassa, and one in Zambezia), while five new cases were admitted (two in Maputo, two in Niassa, and one in Gaza).

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres fell from 96 on Monday to 82 on Tuesday. 32 of these patients (39 per cent) were in Maputo. There were also 10 patients in Nampula, 10 in Niassa, six in Inhambane, six in Gaza, five in Manica, three each in Zambezia, Sofala and Cabo Delgado, two in Tete and two in Matola.

The Ministry release reported a further two deaths from Covid-19, a 68 year old man and a 79 year old woman. Both died in Maputo city. This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 2,161.

Since the number of recoveries is continuing to exceed the number of new cases, the number of active Covid-19 cases has continued to drop – from 15,216 on Monday, to 14,334 on Tuesday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo province, 5,902 (41.2 per cent of the total); Maputo city, 4,865; Zambezia, 819; Inhambane, 629; Gaza, 621; Niassa, 508; Cabo Delgado, 258; Manica, 250; Tete, 237; Nampula, 135; and Sofala, 110.

The release also announced that, in the previous 24 hours, a further 63,686 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. This brought the number of people fully vaccinated against the disease to 9,099,158 – which is 59.8 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above. The number of people who have received booster vaccination shots has now reached 4,458.

Source: AIM