Mozambique | Covid-19: Over 5.2 million people vaccinated

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Mozambique | Covid-19: Over 5.2 million people vaccinated

5:43 CAT | 15 Nov 2021

FILE PHOTO - For illustration purposes only. [Fie photo: TVM]

The number of people in Mozambique who have received at least one dose of the vaccine against the Covid-19 respiratory disease is now over 5.2 million, according to the health authorities.

The country is now in the middle of the third phase of its national vaccination campaign. Originally due to end on 3 November, it has been extended by a fortnight to 16 November.

According to a Ministry Thursday press release, in the previous 24 hours 132,024 people were vaccinated. The number of people fully vaccinated has now reached 2,645,158, while 5,210,671 have received at least one dose.

The Ministry said that, by extending the deadline for the third phase of the vaccination campaign, the government hoped that none of those in the target groups will miss the opportunity to become vaccinated.

The vaccination, the release stressed, “contributes decisively to controlling the spread of the disease and thus speeds up the full re-opening of social and economic activities”.

The target groups for the third phase are all those aged between 30 and 49 living in the urban areas who have not yet been vaccinated, and anyone 50 years of age or older in the countryside.

The Ministry stressed that the vaccines are safe and effective, and avoid the worst forms of Covid-19, thus sharply reducing the number of deaths and hospitalisations from the disease.

The release announced that 20 new cases of Covid-19 were diagnosed in the previous 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases identified in Mozambique to 151,410. Of the cases reported on Thursday 13 are women and seven are men. Four are children under the age of 15.

Six of the new cases (30 per cent) were from Maputo city. Four were from Niassa, four from Gaza, three from Sofala, two from Inhambane and one from Tete.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) on Thursday was 1.8 per cent, considerably higher than the 0.5 per cent detected on Wednesday or Tuesday’s 0.8 per cent.

Over the same 24 hour period, one Covid-19 patient was discharged from hospital (in Tete), and one new patient was admitted (in Inhambane).The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities remained nine – seven in Maputo, one in Manica and one in Inhambane.

The Ministry reported no deaths from Covid-19 on Thursday. The country has now gone for five days without recording a single Covid death. Thus the total Mozambican death toll from Covid-19 remains 1,934.

But there were also (and for the second consecutive day) no recoveries from Covid-19 reported. The total number of recoveries remains 149,349, or 98.6 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases rose from 103 on Wednesday to 123 on Thursday, and there is at least one active case in every province. The geographical breakdown of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 36; Cabo Delgado, 36; Gaza, 14; Nampula, eight; Niassa, seven; Manica, five; Inhambane, five; Zambezia, four; Tete, four; Sofala, three; and Maputo province, one.

Source: AIM