Mozambique: First Covid-19 death: 209 positive cases and 71 recoveries – health authority

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Mozambique: First Covid-19 death: 209 positive cases and 71 recoveries – health authority

7:33 CAT | 25 May 2020

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Mozambique registered its first death due to Covid-19, on a day when there were 15 more cases, raising the total from 194 to 209, announced an official source on Monday.

The victim was “a 13-year-old child whose sample was collected on May 20 in the city of Nampula [northern province of Mozambique],” Rosa Marlene, director of public health, said in a press conference updating data on the country’s pandemic.

Rosa Marlene said the victim was hospitalised three months ago for other reasons and after having fever and a cough on May 20, she returned to the health centre, where he would die from Covid-19.

“This child was being treated by the health services in Nampula for related illnesses,” Rosa Marlene said.

Last week, the Mozambican authorities announced the death of a person infected with the new coronavirus, but because of health problems other than Covid-19.

The first death from Covid-19 in Mozambique is announced on a day when the country recorded 15 more cases, all of Mozambican nationality, “with five presenting no symptoms and 10 presenting mild or moderate symptoms,” Rosa Marlene said.

Of the total new cases reported, eight are children under 15.

The new cases are distributed among the provinces of Cabo Delgado (4), Nampula (3), Tete (1), Sofala (2), Gaza (2), Matola City (1) and Maputo City (2).

“The cases are in home isolation and at the moment the process of mapping the contacts is underway”.

Of the 209 cases registered in Mozambique, 183 are of local transmission and 26 are imported.

71 people are reported by the authorities as recovered.

Of the total number of registered cases, 116 are in Cabo Delgado province, six in Nampula, 43 in Maputo city, 22 in Maputo province, 12 in Sofala, three in Tete, one in Manica, three in Inhambane and also three in Gaza.

In total, since the announcement of the first case in the country on March 22, 8,796 tests have been carried out, with around 15,000 of the more than 700,000 people screened having been quarantined, with 1,772 still being followed by the health authorities.