Mozambique | Covid-19: Ten new cases and no deaths reported on Friday

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Mozambique | Covid-19: Ten new cases and no deaths reported on Friday

6:10 CAT | 01 Nov 2021

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The Mozambican health authorities announced on Friday that 10 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease had been diagnosed in the previous 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases reported in Mozambique to 151,270.

According to a Friday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 940,285 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,613 of them in the previous 24 hours.

1,603 of these tests gave negative results, while ten people tested positive for the virus. Six of the positive cases were men and four were women. Four were from Maputo city, two from Nampula, and one each from Cabo Delgado, Niassa, Manica and Gaza. No positive cases were reported from the other five provinces.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) on Friday was 0.6 per cent, much the same as Thursday’s rate of 0.5 per cent.

Over the same 24 hour period, one Covid-19 patient was discharged from hospital (in Niassa), and two new cases were admitted, both in Maputo.

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities rose from eight on Thursday to nine on Friday. Seven of these cases (78 per cent) were in Maputo. There was also one patient in Nampula and one in Zambezia, No Covid-19 cases were hospitalised in any of the other eight provinces.

For the third consecutive day, the Ministry did not report any deaths from Covid-19. Thus the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remains 1,929.

The Ministry release also reported that over the past 24 hours, a further 27 people were declared fully recovered from Covid-19 (22 in Cabo Delgado and five in Zambezia). The total number of recoveries now stands at 149,209, or 98.6 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 fell from 145 on Thursday to 128 on Friday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Cabo Delgado, 51; Maputo city, 29; Niassa, 12; Manica, seven; Nampula, six; Zambezia, six; Inhambane, five; Gaza, five; Maputo province, four; Sofala, two; and Tete, one.

218,337 people received their first dose of vaccine against Covid-19 on Friday. To date, 2,148,309 people have been fully vaccinated against the disease, and 3,162,116 have received at least one dose.

Source: AIM