Mozambique: Maputo Council sets up operations centre to slow Covid-19 spread

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Mozambique: Maputo Council sets up operations centre to slow Covid-19 spread

11:00 CAT | 22 Sep 2020

File photo: Lusa

Maputo city council announced on Monday the creation of an emergency operations centre to help stop the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in the capital and support the most vulnerable families through a basic basket.

The capital has been the area of the country with the highest number of new cases in recent weeks.

Alice de Abreu, the councilwoman for Health and Social Action at Maputo city council, told the public broadcaster Radio Mozambique, that this committee will have a multi-sector composition and will act in six areas, aiming at stopping the coronavirus.

The operations centre will focus on diagnosis and surveillance, case management, community mobilisation and communication, resource management and logistics, water, sanitation and hygiene, as well as mobility and prevention.

Maputo city government will also distribute a basic food basket and a basic social protection subsidy to the 61,000 most vulnerable families.

Alice de Abreu did not give the value of the basic basket, nor whether it would be in cash or in kind.

Abreu said that actions to combat Covid-19 in the capital will be decentralized to each of the municipal districts to make the efforts to control the pandemic more effective.

“We came to the conclusion that the actions in Maputo were more concentrated in the city and with little visibility in the periphery, and therefore we agreed on decentralization,” she said.

The city of Maputo has been declared a community transmission site, as have the cities of Pemba and Nampula, these two in the northern region of the country.

Mozambique had reported, by Monday (September 21) 6,912 positive cases of Covid-19 and 44 deaths.

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 957,948 deaths and more than 30.8 million cases of infection in 196 countries and territories, according to a balance made by the France-Presse news agency (AFP).

Source: Lusa