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Mozambique | Covid-19: 66 new cases and 38 recoveries reported on Tuesday – AIM
11:56 CAT | 29 Jun 2022
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The Mozambican health authorities on Tuesday reported a further 66 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.
According to a Tuesday press release from the Ministry of Health, 36 of the new cases were women and 30 were men. 63 were Mozambican citizens and three were foreigners (as is standard practice, their nationalities were not disclosed). They were between five and 65 years old.
90.9 per cent of the new cases came from the southern four provinces – 27 from Maputo province, 15 from Maputo city, 10 from Inhambane and eight from Gaza. There were also three cases from Cabo Delgado and three from Nampula.
Since the start of the pandemic, 1,346,195 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 846 of them in the previous 24 hours. 780 of these tests yielded negative results, and the 66 that tested positive raised the total number of positive cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 227,726.
The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) rose slightly from 7.66 per cent on Monday to 7.8 per cent on Tuesday.
No Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital on Tuesday, but two new cases were admitted, one in Maputo city and one in Gaza. The number of people receiving medical care in the Covid-19 wards rose from 11 on Monday to 13 on Tuesday – seven in Maputo, five in Matola and one in Gaza. Four of these patients were in intensive care, receiving supplementary oxygen.
No deaths from Covid-19 were reported on Sunday, and so the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remained 2,212.
38 people were declared to have made a full recovery from Covid-19 on Tuesday, 30 in Gaza and eight in Cabo Delgado. The total number of recoveries now stands at 225,093 which is 98.84 per cent of all cases of the disease ever diagnosed in Mozambique.
The number of active cases of Covid-19 rose from 389 on Monday to 417 on Tuesday. The geographical distribution of the cases was as follows: Maputo province. The geographical distribution of the cases was as follows: Maputo province, 127; Maputo city, 112; Inhambane, 57; Gaza, 44; Cabo Delgado, 24; Sofala, 19; Nampula, 16; Tete, nine; Zambezia, six; and Niassa, three. Manica remained the only province without any active cases.
The Ministry also reported that in the previous 24 hours a further 9,118 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. To date, 14,501,267 people have been fully vaccinated against the disease, which is 95.3 per cent of all citizens aged 8 and above.
15,280,488 people have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, and 458,398 have received booster doses.
Source: AIM
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