Mozambique | COVID-19: Seven new cases and four recoveries reported on Thursday – AIM

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Mozambique | COVID-19: Seven new cases and four recoveries reported on Thursday – AIM

7:12 CAT | 06 May 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Thursday reported a further seven cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

This follows 13 cases diagnosed on Wednesday, and none at all on Tuesday.

The new cases were six women and one man, all Mozambican citizens, and aged between nine and 47. Five were diagnosed in Maputo city and two in Maputo province.

According to a Thursday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,314,949 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 527 of them in the previous 24 hours.

520 of these tests yielded negative results, while the seven positive cases raised the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 225,407.

The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the virus) fell from 2.4 per cent on Wednesday to 1.33 per cent on Thursday.

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

The hospitalisation situation also remained unchanged. There was just one Covid-19 patient still in hospital, in Manica province. He was in intensive care, receiving supplementary oxygen. All the other Covid-19 facilities throughout the country were empty.

The Ministry release reported a further four recoveries from Covid-19, all of them in Inhambane province. This brought the total number of recoveries to 223,159, 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 from 40 on Wednesday to 43 on Thursday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 13; Inhambane, six; Gaza, six; Sofala, five; Tete, three; Maputo province, three; Nampula, two; Zambezia, two; Manica, two; Cabo Delgado, one. Niassa remained the only province with no active cases.

The Ministry release also reported that over the previous 24 hours, a further 16,843 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 13,944,160, which is 91.7 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM