Mozambique | Covid-19: The largest number of new cases since July – AIM

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Mozambique | Covid-19: The largest number of new cases since July – AIM

3:21 CAT | 22 Dec 2021

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The Mozambican health authorities on Tuesday reported 2,068 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease – the largest number of new cases in a single 24 hour period since 28 July, when 2,460 cases were reported.

According to a Tuesday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,034,873 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 6,001 of them in the previous 24 hours.

3,933 of these tests gave negative results, while 2,068 people tested positive for the virus. 1,196 of the new cases were women, 869 were men, and in three cases the sex of the patient was not reported. 204 were children under the age of 15.

This brings the total number of cases of Covid-19 diagnosed in Mozambique to 162,525.

The same pattern was reported as earlier in the month – the vast majority of the new cases are from the far south of the country, and only a handful of cases were reported from north of the Zambezi river.

Maputo city (860 cases) and Maputo province (521) accounted for 66.8 per cent of the new cases. There were also 238 cases from Inhambane, 229 from Gaza, 143 in Manica and 35 in Sofala. All other provinces reported less than 20 cases – 17 in Cabo Delgado, nine in Zambezia, eight in Tete, seven in Nampula and one in Niassa.

The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the virus) was 34.46 per cent. Because of the large number of tests, this was a decline on the rate of 38.24 per cent recorded on Monday, but much higher than the weekend rates of 26.2 per cent on Sunday and 27.28 per cent on Saturday.

The positivity rate was higher in the worst hit areas – 40.45 per cent in Maputo city, and 45.95 per cent in Inhambane. But in the north the rate remained low – 8.4 per cent in Nampula, 7.8 per cent in Cabo Delgado, and only 0.9 per cent in Niassa.

Over the same 24 hour period, 11 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (six in Maputo, three in Matola and two in Cabo Delgado), while 29 new cases were admitted (24 in Maputo, three in Manica and two in Matola).

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres rose from 64 on Monday to 77 on Tuesday. 62 of these patients (80.5 per cent) were in Maputo. There were also four in Inhambane, four in Manica, three in Matola, two in Cabo Delgado, one in Sofala and one in Gaza. No Covid-19 patients were hospitalised in the other four provinces.

The Ministry release also reported five deaths from Covid-19, all of them in Maputo. Three were men (aged 28, 41 and 43), and two were women (aged 42 and 77). This brings the total number of Covid-19 deaths in Mozambique to 1,957.

33 people were declared to have made a full recovery from Covid-19 (32 in Gaza and one in Zambezia). The total number of recoveries now stands at 150,517, which is 92.6 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases rose from 8,017 on Monday to 10,047 on Tuesday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 4,422 (44 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 3,230; Gaza, 866; Inhambane, 789; Manica, 459; Sofala, 114; Cabo Delgado, 68; Tete, 39; Nampula, 29; Zambezia, 18; and Niassa, 13.

The release also reported that, over the previous 24 hours, a further 129,403 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. To date, 5,613,516 people have been fully vaccinated against the disease, and 8,069,046 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

Source: AIM