Mozambique | Covid-19: 21 new cases and 11 recoveries reported on Sunday – AIM

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Mozambique | Covid-19: 21 new cases and 11 recoveries reported on Sunday – AIM

6:42 CAT | 21 Feb 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Sunday reported a further 21 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 11 full recoveries.

According to a Sunday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,259,571 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 861 of them in the previous 24 hours.

840 of these tests yielded negative results, and the 21 positive cases pushed the number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 224,903.

14 of the new cases identified on Sunday were men and seven were women. 16 cases (76.2 per cent) were from Maputo city. There were also two cases in Cabo Delgado, and one each in Tete, Zambezia and Maputo province. No positive cases were reported from the other six provinces.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be infected with the virus) was 2.44 per cent, much the same as the 2.5 per cent reported on Saturday.

Over the same 24 hour period, three Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, two in Maputo and one in Inhambane. No new patients were admitted.

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 wards fell from 16 on Saturday to 13 on Sunday. Nine of these patients (69.2 per cent) were in Maputo, two were in Gaza, one was in Niassa, and one in Zambezia. No Covid-19 patients were hospitalised in the other seven provinces.

The 11 recoveries were all from Gaza. This brought the total number of recoveries to 218,922, which is 97.3 per cent of all Covid-19 cases ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 rose slightly from 3,778 on Saturday to 3,788 on Sunday. The geographical breakdown of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 3,360 (88.7 per cent of the total); Niassa, 87; Cabo Delgado, 81; Maputo province, 63; Tete, 55; Nampula, 40; Gaza, 33; Zambezia, 26; Manica, 24; Sofala, 12; and Inhambane, seven.

The Ministry release also reported that, in the previous 24 hours, a further 16,614 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease has now reached 10,521,232, which is 69.2 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM