Mozambique Covid-19: Three deaths, 65 new cases and 76 recoveries reported on Friday – AIM report

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Mozambique Covid-19: Three deaths, 65 new cases and 76 recoveries reported on Friday – AIM report

7:22 CAT | 19 Apr 2021

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According to the Mozambican health authorities, after two consecutive days when no deaths were reported from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, Covid-19 killed again on Friday.

Three deaths were reported, all of them Mozambican men, aged 54, 65 and 80. Two of the deaths occurred in Maputo city and one in Maputo province. This brings the total number of Covid-19 deaths in Mozambique to 797.

According to a Ministry of Health press release, since the start of the pandemic, 501,859 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,102 of them in the previous 24 hours. Of the samples tested, the majority came from the far south – 518 from Maputo city and 101 from Maputo province. There were also 132 tests from Nampula, 100 from Inhambane, 85 from Cabo Delgado, 58 from Sofala, 61 from Tete, 43 from Zambezia, and two from Manica. No tests were reported from Niassa or Gaza.

1,037 of the tests gave negative results and 65 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This brings the total number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique to 69,067.

The positivity rate (the proportion of people tested found to be infected) on Friday was 5.9 per cent. This compares with six per cent on Thursday, 4.5 per cent on Wednesday and 5.8 per cent on Tuesday.

Of the positive cases diagnosed on Friday, 64 were Mozambicans and one was a foreign national (the Ministry release did not reveal his or her nationality). 34 were men or boys and 31 were women or girls. Two were children under the age of 15 and ten were over 65 years old.

50 of the new cases (76.9 per cent) came from the Greater Maputo Metropolitan Area (Maputo and Matola cities and the neighbouring districts of Boane and Marracuene). There were also seven cases from Zambezia, five from Sofala, two from Nampula and one from Tete.

Over the same 24 hour period, only one Covid-19 patient was discharged from hospital (in Maputo), while five new cases were admitted (four in Maputo and one in Nampula).

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 wards rose slightly to 47 (up from 45 on Thursday). The great majority of these patients, 35 (74.5 per cent), were in Maputo. There were also four patients in Sofala, three in Nampula, three in Zambezia and two in Matola. There were no patients in the Covid-19 facilities in the other six provinces (Cabo Delgado, Niassa, Manica, Tete, Gaza and Inhambane).

The Ministry also reported that on Friday a further 76 people were declared fully recovered from Covid-19 (34 in Zambezia, 27 in Cabo Delgado, and 15 in Maputo province). The total number of recoveries now stands at 61,188, or 88.6 per cent of all those diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 has fallen to 7,078 (down from 7,092 on Thursday). The geographical distribution of these cases was as follows: Maputo city. 5,107 (72,2 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 794; Nampula, 364; Sofala, 276; Zambezia, 164; Niassa, 156; Inhambane, 123; Cabo Delgado, 57; Gaza, 47; Tete, 14; and Manica, six.

(AIM)

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Source: AIM