Mozambique | COVID-19: Only five new cases and no deaths reported on Sunday – AIM

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Mozambique | COVID-19: Only five new cases and no deaths reported on Sunday – AIM

7:42 CAT | 07 Mar 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities reported only five new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease on Sunday.

According to a Sunday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,277.445 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 745 of them in the previous 24 hours.

740 of these tests gave negative results, and the five who tested positive push the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique to 225,140.

Of the cases identified on Sunday four were women and one was a man. Four were from Maputo city and one was from Niassa. No positive cases were reported from any of the other nine provinces.

The Covid-19 positivity rate (the percentage of those tested who prove to be carrying the virus) fell from 1.04 per cent on Saturday to 0.67 per cent on Sunday.

Over the same 24 hour period, no Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, and one new case was admitted, in Manica. The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres rose from 17 on Saturday to 18 on Sunday. 12 of these cases (67 per cent) were in Maputo, three were in Tete and three in Manica. No Covid-19 patients were hospitalised in the other eight provinces.

The Ministry reported no further deaths from Covid-19, and so the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remains 2,196.

There were also no recoveries from the disease reported, and so the total number of recoveries remains 219,897, which is 97.7 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 rose slightly, from 3,038 on Saturday to 3,043 on Sunday. The geographical breakdown of these cases was as follows: Maputo city, 2,881 (94.7 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 33; Cabo Delgado, 29; Tete, 21; Zambezia, 20; Niassa, 17; Gaza, 15; Manica, 14; Sofala, six; Nampula, four; and Inhambane, three.

The Ministry also reported that, over the previous 24 hours, a further 45,482 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease has now reached 11,637,827. This is 76.5 per cent of the target figure of 15.2 million – every citizen aged 18 or above

Source: AIM