Mozambique | COVID-19: Number of new daily cases continues to climb – AIM

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Mozambique | COVID-19: Number of new daily cases continues to climb – AIM

6:10 CAT | 06 Dec 2021

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The Mozambican health authorities have reported a continuing climb in the number of new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

According to a Thursday press release from the Ministry of Health, 58 new cases were diagnosed that day – a significant increase on the 46 diagnosed on Wednesday and the 20 diagnosed on Tuesday.

Thus 124 new cases have been identified in three days – in a country where, throughout November the number of new cases was usually running at less than ten a day.

Since the start of the pandemic, 981,358 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,857 of them in the previous 24 hours. 1,799 of these tests yielded negative results.

88 per cent of the positive cases came from the far south – 35 from Maputo city and 16 from Maputo province. There were also three cases from Zambezia, and one each from Cabo Delgado, Tete. Inhambane and Gaza. The total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique is now 151,652.

The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested who are positive for the coronavirus) on Thursday was 3.12 per cent. The rate was 2.86 per cent on Wednesday and 1.38 per cent on Tuesday. Throughout late November, the positivity rate was always less than one per cent.

Over the same 24 hour period, no Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, but two new cases were admitted, both in Maputo. The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities rose from seven on Wednesday to nine on Thursday, all of them in Maputo city.

The Ministry release did not report any recoveries from Covid-19 on Thursday. Thus the total number of recoveries remains 149,538, or 98.1 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The Ministry also reported no deaths from Covid-19 on Thursday. Thus the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remains 1,941.

The number of active Covid-19 cases rose from 111 on Wednesday to 169 on Thursday. The geographical breakdown of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 84 (49.7 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 31; Cabo Delgado, 14; Gaza, 12; Niassa, eight; Zambezia, eight; Nampula, six; Tete, four; Manica, one; Inhambane, one. Sofala is now the only province with no Covid-19 active cases.

The Ministry also reported that, in the previous 24 hours, a further 76,530 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease is now 4,053,689 while 6.645,389 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

Source: AIM