Mozambique | COVID-19: Five new cases and no deaths reported on Tuesday – AIM

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Mozambique | COVID-19: Five new cases and no deaths reported on Tuesday – AIM

7:22 CAT | 13 Apr 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Tuesday reported a further five cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

This compares with three cases identified on Monday, 13 on Sunday, three on Saturday and two on Friday.

According to a Tuesday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,303,571 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 934 of them in the previous 24 hours.

929 of these tests yielded negative results. The five positive cases brought the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 224,301.

Three of the new cases were women and two were men, aged between 21 and 44. Four were Mozambicans and one was a foreign citizen (whose nationality was not revealed). Two were diagnosed in Maputo city, two in Niassa and one in Gaza.

The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the virus) fell from 1.09 per cent on Monday to 0.54 per cent on Tuesday.

In this same 24 hour period there was no change in the hospitalisation of Covid-19 patients. No Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital and no new cases were admitted. The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 wards remained four – two in Maputo and two in Niassa. One of the Maputo patients is in intensive care, receiving supplementary oxygen.

The Ministry reported no further deaths from the disease on Tuesday, and so the Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remained 2,200. The last time a Covid-19 death was reported was on 20 March.

There were 11 recoveries from Covid-19 on Tuesday – eight in Maputo city and three in Maputo province. The total number of recoveries now stands at 223,058, which is slightly more than 99 per cent of all cases of Covid-19 ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 fell from 45 on Monday to 39 on Tuesday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Niassa, 11; Nampula 11; Maputo city, six; Cabo Delgado, six; Inhambane, three; and Sofala, two. There were no active cases at all in the other five provinces (Maputo province, Gaza, Manica, Tete and Zambezia).

The Ministry also reported that, over the previous 24 hours, a further 17,774 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 13,544,111, which is 89.1 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM