Mozambique Covid-19: 312 new cases and five deaths reported on Thursday – AIM

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Mozambique Covid-19: 312 new cases and five deaths reported on Thursday – AIM

6:02 CAT | 03 Sep 2021

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The Mozambican health authorities on Thursday reported a further 312 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and five Covid-19 deaths.

The latest victims were four men and one woman, all of Mozambican nationality, and aged between 43 and 86. Three of them died in Maputo city and two in Maputo province. This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 1,871.

According to a Ministry of Health Thursday press release, since the start of the pandemic, 856,306 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 2,347 of them in the previous 24 hours.

2,035 of these tests yielded negative results, while 312 people tested positive for the coronavirus. The total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique now stands at 147,066.

192 of the new cases reported on Thursday were women or girls, and 119 were men or boys. In recent weeks many more women than men have been diagnosed with Covid-19 – which is a complete reversal of the gender profile of the disease which, in the earlier phases of the pandemic, seemed to strike more at men than women. 33 of the new cases are children under the age of 15, and 13 are over 65 years old. In three cases, no age information was available.

As has become the norm, the majority of the new cases came from northern Mozambique. 62 per cent were from the four provinces north of the Zambezi – 74 from Nampula, 73 from Cabo Delgado, 26 from Niassa and 21 from Zambezia.

38 per cent were from the seven provinces of southern and central Mozambique – 58 from Gaza, 25 from Inhambane, 16 from Maputo city, seven from Manica, six from Maputo province, three from Sofala, and three from Tete.

The positivity rate (the proportion of those tested found to be carrying the coronavirus) on Thursday was 13.3 per cent – almost identical with Wednesday’s rate of 13.2 per cent, but higher than the Tuesday rate of 10.7 per cent.

The provinces with the highest positivity rates were Zambezia (25.3 per cent), Gaza (24.2 per cent), Nampula (22.7 per cent), and Cabo Delgado (21 per cent). Three of these four provinces are in the north. The lowest positivity rates were found in Maputo city (three per cent) and Sofala (2.6 per cent).

In the same 24 hour period, 13 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (six in Niassa, five in Nampula, four in Maputo, two in Inhambane, and one in Matola), and 15 new cases were admitted (five in Niassa, five in Nampula, two in Maputo, and one each in Matola, Inhambane and Tete).

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities has continued to fall – from 121 on Wednesday, to 118 on Thursday. Of these patients, 57 (48.3 per cent) were in Maputo. There were also 18 patients in Nampula, 11 in Niassa, six in Matola, six in Inhambane, five in Zambezia, five in Cabo Delgado, four in Sofala, three in Tete, two in Gaza and one in Manica.

A further 1,031 people were declared fully recovered from Covid-19 (932 in Maputo city, 91 in Gaza and eight in Zambezia). The total number of recoveries now stands at 135,431, or 92.1 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases has now fallen to below 10,000 – from 10,484 on Wednesday to 9,760 on Thursday. The geographical distribution of these cases was as follows: Maputo province, 2,898 (29.7 per cent of the total); Maputo city, 2,417; Nampula, 1,448; Inhambane, 863; Cabo Delgado, 603; Niassa, 550; Zambezia, 510; Gaza, 331; Sofala, 78; Tete, 32; and Manica, 30.

The Ministry also reported that in the previous 24 hours 84,384 people received the second dose of vaccine against Covid-19. To date, 1,166,168 people have been fully vaccinated. In most cases, this means two doses of the Chinese Vero-Cell vaccine, or of the Indian Covishield vaccine. A minority have received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which only requires one dose.

Currently, the Health Ministry is urging all those who have received the first dose of the Vero-Cell vaccine to make their way to the vaccination posts to receive the second dose by next Wednesday, 8 September. The Ministry wans that Vero-Cell only becomes fully effective after two doses.

The groups covered in this phase of the national vaccination campaign are people aged 50 and above in the urban areas, those who fought in the national liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial rule, drivers and fare collectors on passenger transport, state employees, and teachers who were not immunized in earlier phases of the campaign.

Source: AIM