Mozambique | COVID-19: Six new cases and no deaths or recoveries reported on Sunday – AIM

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Mozambique | COVID-19: Six new cases and no deaths or recoveries reported on Sunday – AIM

8:38 CAT | 15 Mar 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Sunday reported a further six new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, but there were no further deaths.

According to a Sunday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic. 1,284,040 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 612 of them in the previous 24 hours.

606 of the tests gave negative results, and the six positive cases push the total number of cases of Covid-19 diagnosed in Mozambique to 225,179.

Four of the new cases identified on Sunday were women and two were men. Four were from Maputo city, one from Nampula and one from Niassa.

The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the virus) rose from 0.66 per cent on Saturday to 0.98 per cent on Sunday.

Over the same 24 hour period, there was no change in hospitalization. No Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, and no new cases were admitted. 14 patients remained under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres – 11 in Maputo (78.6 per cent), two in Tete and one in Manica.

No recoveries were reported on Sunday, and so the total number of recoveries remained 222.875, which is just short of 99 per cent of all Covid-19 cases ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases rose from 96 on Saturday to 102 on Sunday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo province, 21; Niassa, 20; Maputo city, 17; Gaza, eight; Sofala, seven; Tete, six; Cabo Delgado, five; Manica, three; Inhambane, two; and Zambezia, one. Nampula remained the only province where there were no active Covid-19 cases.

The Ministry release also reported that, over the previous 24 hours, a further 33,171 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 12,321,828 – which is 81 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM