Mozambique | Covid-19: Positivity rate drops to below one per cent

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Mozambique | Covid-19: Positivity rate drops to below one per cent

4:50 CAT | 25 Feb 2022

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The Covid-19 positivity rate (the percentage of those tested who prove to be carrying the coronavirus that causes the disease) in Mozambique fell to less than one per cent on Thursday, according to the latest press release from the Ministry of Health.

The rate was 0.96 on Thursday. Earlier in the week, the rate had risen from 1.13 per cent on Tuesday to 3.18 per cent on Wednesday.

Since the start of the pandemic, 1,264,558 people have been tested for the coronavirus, 1,669 of them in the previous 24 hours.

1,653 of these tests yielded negative results, while 16 people tested positive for the virus. This brings the total number of positive cases detected in Mozambique to 224,999. Of the new cases identified on Thursday, nine were men and seven were women.

Six cases were from Maputo province, four from Niassa, two from Maputo city, and one each from Gaza, Sofala, Manica and Tete. No positive cases were reported from the other four provinces.

Over the same 24 hour period, three Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (two in Maputo and one in Gaza), while seven new cases were admitted (four in Maputo, two in Manica and one in Tete). The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 wards rose from 13 on Wednesday to 16 on Thursday, three of whom were receiving supplementary oxygen.

Ten of these patients (62.5 per cent) were in Maputo, two in Niassa, two in Manica, one in Tete and one in Gaza. No Covid-19 patients were hospitalised in the other six provinces.

The release said one more person had died from Covid-19 in the previous 24 hours. The Ministry described the victim as “a woman over the age of 50” who died in Gaza. This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 2,192.

18 people were declared to have made a full recovery from Covid-19, all of them in Manica. The total number of recoveries now stands at 219,297, 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 slightly, from 3,509 on Wednesday to 3,506 on Thursday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 3,246 (92.6 per cent of the total); Cabo Delgado, 71; Maputo province, 53; Gaza, 34; Zambezia, 29; Tete, 25; Sofala, 16; Nampula, 12; Niassa, nine; Manica, nine; and Inhambane, two.

The Ministry also reported that, in the same 24 hour period, a further 90,268 people were vaccinated against Covid-19.The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease is now 10,769,6451, which is 70.8 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM