Mozambique | COVID-19: Ten new cases and 1,598 recoveries reported on Tuesday – AIM

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Mozambique | COVID-19: Ten new cases and 1,598 recoveries reported on Tuesday – AIM

5:03 CAT | 09 Mar 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Tuesday reported ten new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, compared with none at all on Monday.

According to a Tuesday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,278,902 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,170 of them in the previous 24 hours.

1,160 of these tests yielded negative results, and the ten positive cases bring the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 225,150.

Six of the positive cases were men and four were women. Four were from Maputo city. Two from Maputo province, two from Niassa, one from Tete, and one from Inhambane. No positive cases were reported from the other six provinces.

The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested who prove to be carrying the virus) was 0.85 per cent. (It had been zero on Monday, because no cases were reported that day).

Over the same 24 hour period, no Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, but one new case entered, in Maputo. The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 wards remained unchanged at 18. 13 of these patients (72.2 per cent) were in Maputo, three were in Manica, and two in Tete. No Covid-19 patients were hospitalised in any of the other eight provinces.

The Ministry reported 1,598 recoveries from Covid-19 (1,559 in Maputo city, 19 in Tete, 12 in Cabo Delgado, six in Maputo province and two in Inhambane). This brings the total number of recoveries to 222,415 – which is 98.8 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

After two days with no known Covid-19 deaths, the Ministry release reported the death of a 46 year old man in Tete province. This brought Mozambique’s Covid-19 death toll to 2,197.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 fell from 2,123 on Monday to 534 on Tuesday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo City, 440 (82.4 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 26; Niassa, 19; Cabo Delgado, 17; Zambezia, 11; Sofala, six; Gaza, four; Nampula, four; Manica, three; Tete, two; and Inhambane, two.

The release also reported that, over the previous 24 hours, a further 124,725 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number fully vaccinated has risen to 11,787,508, which is 77.5 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Source: AIM