Mozambique: Just one new Covid-19 case on Monday – AIM report

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Mozambique: Just one new Covid-19 case on Monday – AIM report

6:19 CAT | 26 Oct 2021

FILE PHOTO- For illustration purposes only. [File photo: Lusa]

The Mozambican health authorities on Monday reported just one new case of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

This case was a Mozambican man in the northern province of Nampula. No cases were reported anywhere else in the country.

According to a Monday press release from the Health Minister, for the second consecutive day no deaths from Covid-19 were reported. The total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique thus remains 1,928.

Since the start of the pandemic, 935,296 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 594 of them in the previous 24 hours. 593 of the tests were negative and just one person tested positive for Covid-19. This brings the number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 151,226.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) on Monday was 0.17 per cent (one divided by 594). This compares with 0.6 per cent on Sunday, 2.1 per cent on Saturday, 1.3 per cent on Friday and 1.2 per cent on Thursday.

In the same 24 hour period, no Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital and none were discharged. The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities was 11, unchanged from Sunday’s figure. Five of these patients were in Maputo, two in Niassa, two in Inhambane, one in Zambezia and one in Manica, No Covid-19 patients were hospitalised in any of the remaining six provinces.

The Ministry release also reported that over the 24 hour period, six people were declared to have recovered fully from Covid-19 (five in Inhambane and one in Tete). The total number of recoveries now stands at 148,666, or 98.3 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases fell from 653 on Sunday to 628 on Monday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 341 (54.3 per cent of the total); Nampula, 179; Cabo Delgado, 66; Zambezia, 10; Maputo province, eight; Niassa, seven; Inhambane, six; Manica, five; Gaza, four; and Sofala, two. Tete was the only province with no Covid-19 active cases.

The Ministry also reported that, in the previous 24 hours, 49,765 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The true figure is bound to be larger, since the Ministry release reports no vaccinations at all in Maputo city or province. This anomaly is almost certainly due to a delay in sending the figures to the Ministry for inclusion in the Monday release.

1,937,898 people have now been fully vaccinated, and 2,367,528 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

Source: AIM