Mozambique | COVID-19: Second day with only one new case – AIM

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Mozambique | COVID-19: Second day with only one new case – AIM

7:09 CAT | 27 Apr 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities reported that on Tuesday, for the second consecutive day, only one new case of the Covid-19 respiratory disease was diagnosed.

This case was a 21 year old Mozambican woman, diagnosed in Maputo city.

According to a Tuesday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,310,781 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 490 of them in the previous 24 hours.

489 of these cases yielded negative results, and the one positive case brought the total number of Covid-19 cases identified in Mozambique to 225,367.

The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the virus) fell slightly from 0.63 per cent on Monday to 0.2 per cent on Tuesday.

In the same 24 hour period, no Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital and no new cases were admitted. The number of patients under medical care in the Covid-19 wards remained three, two in Tete and one in Zambezia. One of these patients is in intensive care, receiving supplementary oxygen.

The Ministry release reported no further deaths from Covid-19, and so the total death toll in Mozambique from the disease remains 2,201.

There were also no recoveries from the disease. Thus the total number of recoveries remains 223,106, which is almost exactly 99 per cent of all cases of Covid-19 ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 rose slightly from 55 on Monday to 56 on Tuesday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Gaza, 20; Cabo Delgado, 15; Sofala, five; Maputo city, four; Tete, three; Manica, three; Zambezia, two; Inhambane, two; Nampula, one; Maputo province, one. Niassa was the only province where there were no active cases of Covid-19.

The Ministry release also reported that, over the previous 24 hours, a further 8,212 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 13,808,040. This is 90.8 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM