Mozambique | Covid-19: More recoveries than new cases, eight further deaths reported on Sunday – AIM

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Mozambique | Covid-19: More recoveries than new cases, eight further deaths reported on Sunday – AIM

6:31 CAT | 10 Jan 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Sunday reported that over the previous 24 hours, 3,430 people were declared fully recovered from the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

1,852 recoveries were from Gaza, 784 from Inhambane, 432 from Tete, 286 from Zambezia, and 76 from Maputo province. The total number of recoveries now stands at 169,090, which is 80.4 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

A Sunday press release from the Ministry of Health announced that, since the start of the pandemic, 1,151,598 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 3,107 of them in the previous 24 hours.

2,097 of these tests gave negative results, while 1,010 people tested positive for the coronavirus. Of Sunday’s new cases, 530 were women and 476 were men. The sex of four cases was omitted. 108 cases were under 15 years old. The number of cases of Covid-19 diagnosed to date in Mozambique is 210,399.

The province with the largest number of new cases was Maputo city, with 397 (39.3 per cent) followed by Nampula with 146 (14.5 per cent). There were also 93 cases from Zambezia. 87 from Inhambane, 68 from Maputo province, 62 from Sofala, 44 from Tete, 42 from Niassa, 41 from Cabo Delgado, 29 from Gaza, and one from Manica.

Over the same 24 hour period, 48 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (15 in Maputo, eight in Manica, seven in Cabo Delgado, six in Niassa, five in Sofala, five in Gaza, and two in Matola), while 41 new cases were admitted (19 in Maputo, eight in Manica, four in Niassa, three in Zambezia, three in Matola, two in Sofala and two in Gaza).

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres fell from 263 on Saturday to 248 on Sunday. 126 of these patients (50.8 per cent) were in Maputo, There were also 20 patients in Nampula, 18 in Manica, 17 in Sofala, 16 in Inhambane, 12 in Zambezia, 12 in Matola, nine in Niassa, nine in Gaza, five in Cabo Delgado and four in Tete.

The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the virus) fell from 37.98 per cent on Saturday, to 32.51 per cent on Sunday.

The Ministry release also reported eight further deaths from Covid-19. Seven of the latest victims were women and one was a man. Their ages varied from 38 to 85. Three died in Maputo city, two in Gaza, and one each in Maputo province, Tete and Manica. This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 2,085.

With many more recoveries than new cases reported on Sunday the number of active cases of Covid-19 fell sharply – from 41,648 on Saturday to 39,220 on Sunday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo province, 8,469 (21.6 per cent of the total); Maputo city, 7,587; Sofala, 3,745; Inhambane, 3,640; Manica, 3,551; Nampula, 3,010; Gaza, 2,557; Cabo Delgado, 2,151; Zambezia, 2,036; Niassa, 1,509; and Tete, 965.

The Ministry also reported that, in the previous 24 hours, 56,508 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. This brings the number of people fully vaccinated against the disease to 7,388,072, while 9,643,588 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

Source: AIM