Mozambique | Covid-19: Positivity rate remains under five per cent – AIM report

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Mozambique | Covid-19: Positivity rate remains under five per cent – AIM report

7:00 CAT | 02 Feb 2022

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According to the Mozambican health authorities, the number of new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease reported on Tuesday rose to over 100, but the positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) remained under five per cent.

Since the start of the pandemic, 1,226,683 people in Mozambique have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 2,831 of them in the previous 24 hours. According to a Tuesday press release from the Ministry of Health, 2,709 of these tests yielded negative results.

122 people tested positive for the virus, a great increase on the 16 cases announced on Monday. But this can largely be explained by the fivefold increase in the number of tests – up from 541 on Monday.

The positivity rate rose from 2.96 per cent on Monday to 4.31 per cent on Tuesday, which is well below the 6.21 per cent reported on Sunday.

Of the new cases reported on Tuesday, 56 were women and 66 were men. 22 were under 15 years of age. The largest number of cases (31 – 25.4 per cent) were from Maputo city. There were also 21 cases from Gaza, 16 from Zambezia, 16 from Sofala, seven from Maputo province, six each from Niassa, Nampula, and Inhambane, five from Cabo Delgado, four from Tete and four from Manica.

Over the same 24 hour period, eight Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (three in Maputo, three in Niassa and two in Tete), while three new cases were admitted (two in Maputo and one in Gaza).

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres fell from 62 on Monday to 56 on Tuesday. 27 of these patients (48.2 per cent) were in Maputo. There were also five patients in Tete, four each in Niassa, Manica and Gaza, three each in Nampula, Sofala and Inhambane, and one each in Cabo Delgado, Zambezia and Matola.

The Ministry reported one more death from Covid-19. He was a man aged over 60 who died in Maputo. This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 2,174.

The release also announced that a further 2.049 people were declared to have made a full recovery from Covid-19 on Tuesday (930 in Maputo province, 260 in Niassa, 221 in Inhambane, 219 in Zambezia, 209 in Maputo city, 194 in Manica, and 16 in Cabo Delgado). The total number of recoveries now stands at 215,417, which is 96.2 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

With the number of recoveries now greatly outstripping the number of new cases, the number of active Covid-19 cases is also dropping sharply, falling from 8.282 on Monday to 6,354 on Tuesday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 3,596 (56.6 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 1,406; Zambezia, 293; Inhambane, 220; Cabo Delgado, 183; Tete, 179; Gaza, 154; Niassa, 138; Manica, 102; Nampula, 66; and Sofala, 17.

The Ministry also reported that, over the previous 24 hours, a further 84,331 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The brought the number fully vaccinated against the disease to 9,589,625. This is 63.1 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

The number of people who have received a booster shot of vaccine has now reached 45,580.

Source: AIM