Mozambique | Covid-19: 76 new cases, but no deaths and no recoveries reported on Monday – AIM

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Mozambique | Covid-19: 76 new cases, but no deaths and no recoveries reported on Monday – AIM

7:30 CAT | 07 Dec 2021

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The Mozambican health authorities on Monday reported a further 76 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, diagnosed overwhelmingly in Maputo city and province.

According to a Monday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 987,579 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 816 of them in the previous 24 hours.

740 of these tests yielded negative results. Of the 76 positive cases, 43 were men and 32 were women. The sex of one case “is as yet unidentified”, said the release, without explanation. The age of the positive cases ranged from one to 78.

74 of the new cases (97.4 per cent) were from the far south (56 from Maputo city and 18 from Maputo province). The two other positive cases were diagnosed in Sofala and Inhambane.

The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested who are positive for the virus) was 9.31 per cent, a sharp increase from the rates of 3.75 per cent on Sunday, 5.49 per cent on Saturday and 5.55 per cent on Friday. The positivity rate in Maputo on Monday was much higher, at 15.34 per cent.

Over the same 24 hour period, two Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, and one new case was admitted, all of them in Maputo. The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities fell from 14 on Sunday to 13 on Monday – 11 in Maputo and two in Inhambane.

Just as on the previous two days, the Ministry release reported no further deaths from Covid-19 on Monday, and no recoveries from the disease. The death toll in Mozambique from the disease thus remains 1.941, and the total number of recoveries remains 149,575 (or 98.3 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique).

The number of active Covid-19 cases rose from 404 on Sunday to 480 on Monday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 234 (48.8 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 234; Inhambane, 30; Cabo Delgado, 25; Zambezia, 18; Gaza, 16; Nampula, eight; Manica, eight; Niassa, five; Tete, five; and Sofala, three.

The Ministry also reported that, over the previous 24 hours, a further 19,830 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 4,243,791, while 6,760,664 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

Source: AIM