Mozambique | Covid-19: Two deaths, 65 new cases and 276 recoveries reported on Thursday – AIM report

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Mozambique | Covid-19: Two deaths, 65 new cases and 276 recoveries reported on Thursday – AIM report

6:10 CAT | 14 Feb 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Thursday reported a further 65 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, but more than four times that number – 276 – were declared to have made a full recovery.

According to a Thursday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic 1,244,268 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 2,100 of them in the previous 24 hours.

2,035 of the tests yielded negative results. The 65 positive cases brought the number of people in Mozambique diagnosed with Covid-19 to 224,559.

Of the new cases identified on Thursday, 33 were men and 32 were women. The provinces with the largest number of cases were Manica (19 – 29.2 per cent) and Maputo city (18 – 27.7 per cent). There were also 12 cases from Maputo province, four from Tete, three from Nampula, three from Gaza, and two each from Niassa, Zambezia and Sofala. No positive cases were reported from Cabo Delgado or Inhambane.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be infected with the virus) rose slightly from 2.56 per cent on Wednesday to 3.1 per cent on Thursday.

The Ministry release reported a further two deaths from Covid-19, both of them children, These latest victims were a two year old boy and a ten year old girl, who died in Maputo city. This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 2,188.

Over the same 24 hour period, 14 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (five in Manica, four in Maputo, three in Niassa, one in Inhambane and one in Matola), while six new cases were admitted (five in Manica and one in Gaza).

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres fell from 27 on Wednesday to 17 on Thursday. Eight of these patients (47.1 per cent) were in Maputo. There were also three cases in Manica, two in Nampula, and one each in Niassa, Zambezia, Tete and Gaza. No Covid-19 patients were hospitalised in the other four provinces.

Of the 276 recoveries, 226 were from Maputo province, 40 from Gaza and 10 from Sofala. This brings the total number of recoveries to 217,951, which is 97.1 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases fell from 4,629 on Wednesday to 4,416 on Thursday. The geographical breakdown of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 3,519 (79.7 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 221; Cabo Delgado, 167; Zambezia, 140; Niassa, 137; Tete, 73; Manica, 50; Inhambane, 49; Nampula, 32; Gaza, 26; and Sofala, two.

The Ministry release also reported that, in the previous 24 hours, a further 38,438 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease has now reached 10,059,768, which is 66.1 per cent of all citizens aged 18 years and above.

Source: AIM