Mozambique | COVID-19 positivity rate drops to around five per cent

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Mozambique | COVID-19 positivity rate drops to around five per cent

6:52 CAT | 29 Mar 2021

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According to the Mozambican health authorities, on Saturday the Covid-19 positivity rate (the proportion of people tested who are found to be carrying the coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 respiratory disease) fell to 5.4 per cent.

This is the lowest positivity rate so far this month. It follows rates of 7.9 per cent on Friday, 7.1 per cent on Thursday, 10.1 per cent on Wednesday, 11.2 per cent on Tuesday, and 10.5 per cent on Monday.

Fewer infections are being reported in both absolute and percentage terms, though data from a further two weeks or more will be required before one can declare confidently that the declining positivity rate is a genuine trend.

According to a press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 474,942 people have been tested for the coronavirus, 2,441 of them in the previous 24 hours. Most of these tests took place in the far south – there were 1,186 tests in Maputo city and 308 in Maputo province. There were also 265 tests in Sofala, 160 in Tete, 156 in Nampula, 95 in Niassa, 95 in Inhambane, 87 in Zambezia, 48 in Cabo Delgado, 41 in Manica and two in Gaza,

2,309 of the tests gave negative results, and 132 people tested positive for the coronavirus. Once again the capital city and the surrounding area proved to be the epicentre of the Mozambican epidemic. There were 57 cases diagnosed in Maputo city and 26 in Maputo province. So Maputo City and province between them accounted for 64.4 per cent of all the new cases reported on Saturday. There were also 13 cases in Nampula, 12 in Niassa, 10 in Sofala, six in Tete, four in Cabo Delgado, two in Zambezia, one in Manica, and one in Inhambane.

On Saturday, the number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 wards dropped to 108 (down from 112 on Friday). 65 of these patients (60.2 per cent) were in Maputo. There were also 15 patients in Zambezia, 10 in Nampula, six in Sofala, five in Inhambane, five in Matola, one in Tete and one in Gaza. There were no patients in the Covid-19 facilities in Cabo Delgado, Niassa or Manica.

The Ministry release also reported a further four Covid-19 deaths – two men and two women aged between 58 and 73. Two of the deaths occurred in Maputo city and two in Maputo province. The total death toll from Covid-19 in Mozambique now stands at 762.

Only 93 people were declared as making a full recovery from Covid-19 on Saturday (51 in Niassa and 42 in Zambezia). This brought the total number of recoveries to 55,167, or 82.3 per cent of all those diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases rose to 11,078 (up from 11,043 on Friday). The geographical breakdown of these cases was as follows: Maputo city, 8,713 (78.7 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 1,266; Sofala, 261; Inhambane, 214; Niassa, 157; Nampula, 157; Cabo Delgado, 98; Gaza, 85; Manica, 73; Tete, 40; and Zambezia, 14.

Source: AIM