Mozambique: Four more Covid-19 deaths reported on Saturday – AIM report

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Mozambique: Four more Covid-19 deaths reported on Saturday – AIM report

5:08 CAT | 21 Feb 2021

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The Covid-19 respiratory disease has claimed a further four victims, according to a Saturday press release from the Mozambican Health Ministry.

These latest victims were three women and one man, all Mozambican nationals, aged between 48 and 78. All four died in Maputo city. This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 587. The great majority of the deaths – 461 (78.5 per cent) – have occurred in Maputo.

Since the start of the pandemic, 401,368 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 2,770 of them in the previous 24 hours. Of the samples tested, 854 were from Maputo city, 451 from Sofala, 428 from Gaza, 413 from Maputo province, 247 from Manica, 148 from Nampula, 101 from Niassa, 86 from Cabo Delgado, 19 from Zambezia, 12 from Tete, and 11 from Inhambane.

2,006 of the tests gave negative results, and 764 people tested positive for the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 54,968. The positivity rate (the proportion of those tested found to be carrying the virus) among the cases reported on Saturday was 27.6 per cent – which compares with rates of 23.9 per cent on Friday, 24.2 per cent on Thursday, 21.9 per cent on Wednesday, and 33.2 per cent on Tuesday.

755 of the Saturday cases are Mozambicans, and nine are foreigners (the Ministry did not reveal their nationalities). 435 are men or boys and 329 are women or girls. 60 are children under the age of 15, and 43 are over 65 years old. For 13 cases, no age information was available.

195 of the new cases were from Maputo city and 100 from Maputo province. Thus Maputo city and province accounted for 38.6 per cent of the cases reported on Saturday. But there were also 147 cases from Sofala, 116 from Gaza, 67 from Manica, 64 from Nampula, 60 from Cabo Delgado, eight from Niassa, three from Zambezia, two from Tete and two from Inhambane.

In the same 24 hour period, 34 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (29 in Maputo, three in Inhambane, and two in Zambezia) and 10 new cases were admitted (eight in Maputo, one in Gaza and one in Zambezia).

As of Saturday, 244 people were under medical care in the Covid-19 wards (down from 272 on Friday). 194 of these patients (79.5 per cent) were in Maputo. There were also 12 patients in Zambezia, 11 in Matola, seven in Tete, six in Nampula, six in Sofala, three in Gaza, two in Inhambane, and one each in Cabo Delgado, Niassa, and Manica.

The Ministry release reported that a further 532 people have made a full recovery from Covid-19 (389 in Sofala, 92 in Manica and 51 in Zambezia). This brings the total number of recoveries to 34,921, or 63.5 per cent of all those diagnosed in Mozambique with the coronavirus.

The number of active Covid-19 cases in the country continues to rise, and had, by Saturday, reached 19,460. These cases are distributed as follows: Maputo city, 11,165 (57.4 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 2,442; Sofala, 2,054; Inhambane, 1,083; Cabo Delgado, 722; Gaza, 689; Niassa, 349; Tete, 318; Nampula, 256; Manica, 217; and Zambezia, 165.

Source: AIM