Mozambique: Highest ever number of coronavirus cases in one day reported on Friday – AIM report

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Mozambique: Highest ever number of coronavirus cases in one day reported on Friday – AIM report

8:02 CAT | 10 Aug 2020

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The Mozambican health authorities on Friday announced the diagnosis of a further 93 cases of the coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 respiratory disease – the largest number of cases ever recorded in a single 24 hour period.

According to a Friday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the first coronavirus case was diagnosed on 22 March, 66,542 people have been tested, 1,391 of them in the previous 24 hours. All these tests were carried out in public facilities.

Of the samples tested, 275 were from Maputo city, 254 from Nampula, 246 from Maputo province, 243 from Sofala, 104 from Manica, 101 from Cabo Delgado, 96 from Tete, 45 from Gaza, 24 from Niassa, and three from Zambezia.

1,298 of the tests were negative, but 93 people tested positive for the coronavirus, raising the number of confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic to 2,213.

Of the new cases, 72 are Mozambicans, 15 are Portuguese, and six are Indian citizens. 55 are men or boys and 38 are women or girls. The usual breakdown of cases by age groups was not given in this release.

30 of the cases were from Gaza – an alarming spike in a province that has previously registered few cases. Prior to Friday, only 44 cases had been diagnosed in Gaza (although the number of Covid-19 cases living in the province was larger, because some of the returnees from South Africa, who tested positive in Maputo province, went back to homes in Gaza).

Of the Gaza cases, 15 were from the provincial capital, Xai-Xai. There were five cases each from the districts of Chonguene, Chokwe and Bilene.

17 cases were diagnosed in Maputo city, and 25 in Maputo province (20 in Matola city, two in Manhica, two in Magude and one in Namaacha). There were 14 cases from Cabo Delgado (10 from the provincial capital, Pemba, and four from Mueda district). Finally, there were seven cases from Nampula city.

In line with standard Ministry of Health procedure, all 93 new cases are now in home isolation, and their contacts are being traced.

Over the 24 hour period, two more Covid-19 patients were hospitalized in isolation wards, one in Maputo and one in Nampula. 13 patients are now hospitalized, seven in Maputo city, four in Beira and two in Nampula.

The Ministry also reported that in the same period a further 32 people made a full recovery from Covid-19 – 23 of them were in Cabo Delgado, three in Zambezia, three in Maputo city, two in Gaza and one in Maputo province. This brings the total number of recoveries since the start of the pandemic to 827. This is 37.37 per cent of all positive cases.

As of Friday, the geographical breakdown of the 2,213 positive cases, by the provinces where they were diagnosed, was as follows: Maputo city, 512; Cabo Delgado, 506; Nampula, 445; Maputo province, 400; Gaza, 74; Sofala, 73; Tete, 58; Inhambane, 50; Zambezia, 47; Niassa, 30; Manica, 18.

The four worst hit provinces (Maputo city and province, Cabo Delgado and Nampula) now account for over 89 per cent of all positive cases.

The main Covid-19 statistics for Mozambique are now: 2,213 confirmed cases, of whom 827 have made a full recovery and 1,369 are active cases. 17 Covid-19 patients have died, 15 of the disease and two from other pathologies.

Source: AIM