Mozambique Covid-19: Positivty rate continues to fall – AIM report

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Mozambique Covid-19: Positivty rate continues to fall – AIM report

7:18 CAT | 27 Sep 2021

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Mozambique’s Covid-19 positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the coronavirus that causes the disease) fell to 3.5 per cent on Friday, according to the latest statistics issued by the Ministry of Health.

This is the lowest daily positivity rate since the 2.5 per cent reported on 8 June. The positivity rates earlier this week were five per cent on Thursday, five per cent on Wednesday, eight per cent on Tuesday, and 5.9 per cent on Monday.

According to a Friday press release from the Ministry, since the start of the pandemic 897,496 people have been tested for the coronavirus, 1,967 of them in the previous 24 hours. 1,898 of these tests yielded negative results, while 69 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 150,439.

35 of the new cases identified on Friday were women or girls and 34 were men or boys. Six were children under the age of 15 and five were over 65 years old,

21 of the new cases were from the northern province of Cabo Delgado, and 11 were from Maputo city. There were also nine cases from Nampula, seven from Niassa, six from Zambezia, four from Inhambane, four from Gaza, three from Maputo province, two from Sofala, one from Tete and one from Manica.

The provinces with the highest positivity rates were all north of the Zambezi – Niassa (14.9 per cent), Zambezia (10.5 per cent) and Cabo Delgado (11.4 per cent). The lowest positivity rates were reported from Manica (0.6 per cent) and Maputo city (1.3 per cent).

Over the same 24 hour period, nine Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (five in Maputo, two in Niassa, one in Inhambane and one in Matola), and four new cases were admitted (two in Maputo and two in Nampula).

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities fell from 43 on Thursday to 37 on Friday. 17 of these cases were in Maputo, 11 in Nampula, four in Niassa, two in Zambezia, two in Inhambane and one in Gaza. No Covid-19 patients were hospitalised in the other five provinces.

The Ministry release reported one further death from Covid-19, a 78 year old Mozambican man who died in Maputo. This brings the Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 1,908.

Over the previous 24 hours, 217 people were declared fully recovered from Covid-19 (126 in Maputo city, 28 in Niassa, 22 in Zambezia, 22 in Inhambane, 15 in Gaza and four in Manica). The total number of recoveries now stands at 146,372, or 97.3 per cent of all those diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases fell from 2,304 on Thursday to 2,155 on Friday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 776 (36 per cent of the total); Nampula, 556; Maputo province, 305; Cabo Delgado, 295; Zambezia, 62; Niassa, 49; Gaza, 44; Inhambane, 42; Sofala, 13; Tete, seven; and Manica, six.

Source: AIM