Mozambique: Covid-19 death toll continues to rise – AIM report

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Mozambique: Covid-19 death toll continues to rise – AIM report

7:45 CAT | 08 Feb 2021

File photo: Lusa

The Mozambican health authorities on Saturday[February 6] reported a further 15 deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and another 928 infections.

According to a Health Ministry press release, the latest victims are 11 men and four women, all of Mozambican nationality, and aged between 30 and 79. Eight of the deaths occurred in Maputo city, three in Inhambane, two in Tete, one in Gaza and one in Sofala. 13 of the deaths were declared on Friday, one on Thursday, and one on 13 January (it is not clear why this death took so long to enter the Ministry’s statistics).

The total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique now stands at 451. 74 of these deaths (16.4 per cent) were reported in the first six days of February. 351 of the deaths (77.8 per cent) have occurred in Maputo city.

Since the start of the pandemic, 361,142 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 2,551 of them in the previous 24 hours. Of the samples tested, 621 were from Maputo city, 406 from Sofala, 300 from Zambezia, 277 from Niassa, 243 from Tete, 182 from Manica, 167 from Nampula, 144 from Cabo Delgado, 106 from Maputo province, and 105 from Gaza. No tests were reported from Inhambane province.

1,623 of the tests gave negative results and 928 people tested positive for the coronavirus. Since the first case was identified, on 22 March 2020, a total of 44,112 people have been diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The positivity rate on Saturday (the proportion of those tested found to be carrying the virus) was 36.4 per cent. This compares with 30.6 per cent on Friday, 40.4 per cent on Thursday, and 35 per cent on Wednesday.

893 of the new cases are known to be Mozambican citizens, and 22 are foreigners (but the Ministry did not give their nationalities). The nationalities of the other 13 have yet to be confirmed. 503 are men or boys and 425 are women or girls. 68 are children under the age of 15, and 57 are over 65 years old. In 22 cases, no age information was available.

For the first time in months, the province that reported most cases was not the capital, but Sofala, with 276 cases (29.7 per cent of the total). The Ministry release did not break this down between the main city, Beira, and the rural districts.

There were 263 cases from Maputo city, and 66 from Maputo province. So between them, Maputo city and province accounted for 35.4 per cent of the cases. There were also 76 cases from Tete, 60 from Gaza, 52 from Cabo Delgado, 47 from Zambezia, 44 from Manica, 25 from Nampula and 19 from Niassa.

The Ministry release reported that, over the same 24 hour period, 28 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (16 from Maputo, seven from Matola, two from Sofala, two from Zambezia and one from Manica), while 23 new cases were admitted (20 in Maputo, two in Sofala and one in Manica).

As of Saturday, there were 317 people under medical care in the Covid-19 wards. By far the largest number, 247 (77.9 per cent) were in Maputo. There were also 16 patients in Sofala, 15 in Matola, ten in Zambezia, nine in Inhambane, eight in Tete, six in Gaza, two in Nampula, two in Cabo Delgado, one in Niassa and one in Manica. Thus at least one Covid-19 patient is hospitalised in each of Mozambique’s 11 provinces.

The ministry also reported that a further 578 people have made a complete recovery from Covid-19 (392 in Maputo city, 129 in Inhambane, and 57 in Sofala). This brings the total number of recoveries to 26,790, which is 59.8 per cent of all those diagnosed with the coronavirus in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases continues to rise, and has now reached 16,897, the highest it has ever been. The geographical break down of the active cases is as follows: Maputo city, 8,950 (53 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 2,377; Sofala, 1.398; Gaza, 1,185; Inhambane, 699; Niassa, 496; Manica, 483; Cabo Delgado, 372; Zambezia, 366; Nampula, 362; and Tete, 209.

Source: Lusa