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Mozambique | Covid-19: 13 new cases, no deaths, no recoveries reported on Sunday – AIM
7:00 CAT | 12 Apr 2022
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The Mozambican health authorities on Sunday reported 13 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease – a considerable increase on the three cases reported on Saturday, and the two on Friday.
According to a Sunday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,302,362 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 414 of them in the previous 24 hours.
401 of these tests gave negative results. The 13 positive cases brought the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 225,293.
The 13 new cases consisted of eight men and five women, all of them Mozambican citizens, and aged between 14 and 50. Eleven were diagnosed in the northern province of Nampuka, a d two n Maputo city.
The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the virus) rose from 0.5 per cent on Saturday to 3.14 per cent on Sunday.
In this same 24 hour period there was no change in the hospitalisation of Covid-19 patients. No Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital and no new cases were admitted. The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 wards remained four – two in Maputo and two in Niassa. One of the Maputo patients is in intensive care, receiving supplementary oxygen.
The Ministry reported no further deaths from the disease on Sunday, and so the Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remained 2,200. The last time a Covid-19 death was reported was on 20 March.
There were also no recoveries from the disease on Sunday. The total number of recoveries remained 223,047, which is almost exactly 99 per cent of all Covid-19 cases ever diagnosed in Mozambique.
The number of active cases of Covid 19 rose from 29 on Saturday to 42 on Sunday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Nampula, 11; Maputo city, 10; Niassa, eight; Cabo Delgado, six; Maputo province, three; Sofala, two; and Inhambane, two. There were no active cases at all in the other four provinces (Gaza, Manica, Tete and Zambezia).
The Ministry also reported that, over the previous 24 hours, a further 424 people were vaccinated against Covid-19 (in Tete and Inhambane).
The total number of people vaccinated against the disease now stands at 13,498,246, which is 88.8 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.
Source: AIM
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