Mozambique: Five new Covid-19 cases, 35 recoveries and no deaths reported on Monday – AIM

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Mozambique: Five new Covid-19 cases, 35 recoveries and no deaths reported on Monday – AIM

6:10 CAT | 17 Nov 2021

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The Mozambican health authorities on Monday reported five new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, but no deaths.

Thus the Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remains 1,936.

According to a Monday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 959,135 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 640 of them in the previous 24 hours.

635 of the tests gave negative results while five people tested positive for the coronavirus. Of the new cases, three were men and two were women. Two were from Nampula, and one each were from Maputo city, Zambezia and Inhambane.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) on Monday was 0.8 per cent, much the same as Sunday’s rate of 0.9 per cent. The rates on earlier days were 0.5 per cent on Saturday, 0.3 per cent on Friday, and 1.8 per cent on Thursday.

Over the same 24 hour period, no Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, and no new cases were admitted. The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities remained static at eight. Five of these patients (62.5 per cent) were in Maputo, one was in Matola, one in Inhambane and one in Zambezia.

The Ministry release added that on Monday 35 people were declared fully recovered from Covid-19 (29 in Maputo city, three in Zambezia and three in Inhambane). The total number of recoveries now stands at 149,403, or 98.7 per cent of all those who have ever been diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 fell from 119 on Sunday to 89 on Monday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Cabo Delgado, 23; Nampula, 14; Maputo city, 12; Gaza, 10; Niassa, eight; Tete, five; Manica, five; Inhambane, four; Zambezia, three; Sofala, three; and Maputo province, two.

The Ministry release added that in the previous 24 hours, a further 34,862 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. So far, since vaccination began, in March, 2,800,866 people have been fully vaccinated against the disease, and 5,628,427 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

Source: AIM