Mozambique: Four days without Covid-19 deaths – AIM report

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Mozambique: Four days without Covid-19 deaths – AIM report

5:34 CAT | 03 May 2021

According to the Mozambican health authorities, no deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease were reported on either Friday or Saturday.

These means there have been no Covid-19 deaths for four consecutive days. Mozambique’s total Covid-19 death toll remains 814. 14 of the 30 days in April were free of Covid-19 deaths.

According to a Ministry of Health Saturday press release, since the start of the pandemic, 520,205 people were tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,590 of them in the previous 24 hours.

1,542 of these tests yielded negative results, and 48 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This brought the total number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique to 69,965.

36 of the new cases (75 per cent) came from the far south – 25 from Maputo city and 11 from Maputo province. There were also three cases from Nampula, three from Sofala, two from Manica, two from Inhambane, one from Niassa and one from Tete.

The positivity rate (the proportion of those tested found to be infected) on Saturday was three per cent. This compares with 3.3 per cent on Friday, 3.2 per cent on Thursday, 3.4 per cent on Wednesday, and 6.1 per cent on Tuesday,

Over the same 24 hour period, the number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment units fell from 43 to 42. 32 of these patients (76.2 per cent) were in Maputo city. There were also five patients in Sofala, and one each in Niassa, Zambezia, Nampula, Inhambane and Matola. No patients were hospitalised in the Cabo Delgado, Tete, Manica or Gaza Covid-19 wards.

The Ministry release also reported that a further 970 people were declared fully recovered from Covid-19 on Saturday (844 in Maputo city, 96 in Niassa, 25 in Tete and five in Zambezia). This brings the total number of recoveries to 66,883, or 95.6 per cent of all those diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 has fallen to 2,264 (down from 3,136 on Friday). The geographical distribution of these cases was as follows: Maputo city, 846 (37.4 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 835; Sofala, 293; Zambezia, 128; Nampula, 35; Gaza, 32; Manica, 28; Inhambane, 27; Niassa, 21; Cabo Delgado, 17; and Tete, two.

Source: AIM