Mozambique: Largest number of new Covid-19cases in a day since early February – AIM

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Mozambique: Largest number of new Covid-19cases in a day since early February – AIM

4:04 CAT | 08 Jun 2022

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The Mozambican health authorities on Tuesday reported 81 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease – which is the largest number of new cases in a single 24 hour period since 8 February, when 87 cases were reported.

According to a Tuesday press release from the Ministry of Health, 45 of the new cases were women and 36 were men. 19 of them were children under 15 years of age, and the oldest was 77 years old. 75 were Mozambican citizens and six were foreigners (as is normal practice, the release did not reveal their nationalities).

The vast majority of the new cases were from the southern provinces – 36 from Maputo city, 27 from Maputo province, ten from Gaza and four from Inhambane. There were also four cases from the northern province of Cabo Delgado. No new cases were reported from any of the other six provinces.

Since the start of the pandemic, 1,331,651 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 806 of them on Monday. 725 of these tests yielded negative results, and the 81 positive cases brought the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 226,065.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) rose from 8.74 per cent on Monday, to 10.05 per cent on Tuesday. The positivity rate was much higher in the worst hit provinces – 20 per cent in Gaza, 15.98 per cent in Maputo province and 15.25 per cent in Maputo city.

The Ministry reported one more death from Covid-19. He was a 25 year old man who died of the disease in Maputo city on Monday. This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 2,205.

Two Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital on Tuesday, one in Maputo city, and one in Gaza. Two new patients were admitted, both in Maputo city. Four people were under medical treatment in the Covid-19 wards, three in Maputo city and one in Niassa. None were in intensive care.

Seven people were declared on Tuesday to have made a full recovery from Covid-19 – five in Inhambane and two in Niassa. The total number of recoveries now stands at 223,539, which is 98.88 per cent of all cases of Covid-19 ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases rose from 244 on Monday to 317 on Tuesday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 147; Maputo province, 114; Gaza, 34; Cabo Delgado, 10; Inhambane, nine; Sofala, two; and Nampula, one. There were no active cases in Niassa, Zambezia, Tete or Manica. The four southern provinces accounted for 96.2 per cent of all the active cases.

The Ministry release also reported that, over the previous 24 hours, a further 4,693 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease is 14,288,674, which is 94 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.

Vaccination rates vary considerably between provinces. Nampula has vaccinated 105.1 per cent of its target figure. This could be due in part to the National Statistics Institute (INE) underestimating the size of the Nampula population, and in part to demographic changes, as some of the over 800,000 people displaced from their homes in Cabo Delgado by terrorist raids have fled over the provincial boundary into Nampula, where they have been vaccinated.

All of the provinces have vaccinated well over 80 per cent of their target figures, with the exception of Maputo city. Although the capital should be the easiest part of Mozambique in which to run a vaccination campaign, it has only met 71.2 per cent of its target.

Source: AIM