Mozambique | Covid-19: 184 recoveries, 17 new cases and one death reported on Tuesday – AIM

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Mozambique | Covid-19: 184 recoveries, 17 new cases and one death reported on Tuesday – AIM

7:45 CAT | 23 Feb 2022

The Mozambican health authorities on Monday announced 17 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease and 184 recoveries (89 in Maputo city, 83 in Niassa, seven in Zambezia and five in Inhambane.

This brings the total number of recoveries to 219,106, which is 97.4 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

According to a Monday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,259,935 people have been tested for the coronvirus that causes Covid-19, 364 of them in the previous 24 hours.

347 of these tests yielded negative results, while 17 people tested positive for the virus. This brings the number of cases of Covid-19 identified in Mozambique to 224,920.

Of the new cases identified on Monday, nine were women and eight were men. The great majority – 13 (76.5 per cent) – were from Maputo city. There were also two cases from Maputo province, one from Nampula and one from Tete. No positive cases were reported from the other seven provinces.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be infected with the virus) rose from 2.44 per cent on Sunday to 4.67 per cent on Monday.

Over the same 24 hour period, just one Covid-19 patient was discharged from hospital, in Maputo, and two new cases were admitted (one in Maputo and one in Gaza).

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 wards remained 13, the same as on Sunday. Eight of these patients (61.5 per cent) were in Maputo, and three of them were receiving supplementary oxygen. There also three patients in Gaza, one in Niassa and one in Zambezia.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 fell from 3,788 on Sunday to 3,620 on Monday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 3,283 (90.7 per cent of the total); Cabo Delgado, 81; Maputo province, 65; Tete, 56; Nampula, 41; Gaza, 33; Manica, 24; Zambezia, 19; Sofala, 12; Niassa, four; and Inhambane, two.

The Ministry release said that, after five days in which no deaths from Covid-19 were reported, a 35 year old woman died of the disease, bringing the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 2,189.

Statistics from the National Health Institute (INS) showed that 771 of the deaths (35.2 per cent) were among people aged 60 and above. 409 of the victims were aged between 50 and 59, 378 between 40 and 49, and 330 between 30 and 39. 301 of the deaths occurred among people aged under 30, including 26 children under the age of ten.

The Ministry release reported that, in the previous 24 hours only 2,662 people were vaccinated against Covid-19, bringing the total number of people fully vaccinated to 10,546,112. This is 69.3 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.