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The Mozambican health authorities on Monday reported nine new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 109 full recoveries from the disease.
According to a Monday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,268,833 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 632 of them in the previous 24 hours.
623 of the tests gave negative results, while the nine positive cases brought the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 225,047.
Of the new cases identified on Monday, seven were men and two were women. Five were from Gaza, two from Maputo city and two from Maputo province. No positive cases were diagnosed in any of the other eight provinces.
The Covid-19 positivity rate (the percentage of those tested who prove to be carrying the coronavirus) rose from 0.27 per cent on Sunday to 1.42 per cent on Monday.
Over the same 24 hour period, two Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital in Maputo, and five new cases were admitted (four in Maputo and one in Cabo Delgado).
The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres rose from 18 on Sunday to 21 on Monday. 11 of these patients (52.4 per cent) were in Maputo, where three of them were receiving supplementary oxygen. There were also four patients in Tete, two in Niassa, two in Manica, one in Cabo Delgado and one in Gaza. No Covid-19 patients were hospitalised in the other five provinces.
For the fourth consecutive day, no deaths from Covid-19 were reported. The Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remained 2,192.
Of the 109 recoveries, 50 were from Cabo Delgado, 28 from Gaza, 22 from Maputo city, seven from Zambezia and two from Inhambane. This brought the total number of recoveries to 219.430, which is 97.5 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.
The number of active cases of Covid-19 fell from 3,521 on Sunday to 3,421 on Monday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 3,242 (94.8 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 57; Tete, 31; Cabo Delgado, 24; Gaza, 15; Zambezia, 14; Nampula, 12; Niassa, 10; Manica, nine; Sofala, five; and Inhambane, two.
The Ministry release added that in the previous 24 hours, a further 4,570 people were vaccinated against Covid-18. The number fully vaccinated against the disease has now reached 11,030,855, which is 72.5 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.
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