Mozambique: More about the three new coronavirus cases diagnosed on Friday – AIM report

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Mozambique: More about the three new coronavirus cases diagnosed on Friday – AIM report

5:41 CAT | 02 May 2020

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The Mozambican National Health Institute (INS) on Friday diagnosed a further three cases of the coronavirus that causes the respiratory disease Covid-19, pushing the total number of cases from 76 to 79.

Speaking on Friday at the Ministry of Health’s daily press conference on Covid-19, the National Director of Public Health, Rosa Marlene, said that to date 2,246 suspect cases have been tested, 170 of them in the previous 24 hours. The great majority of the samples tested – 167 – were negative, but three tested positive for the coronavirus.

The new cases are all men and are all Mozambican citizens. Two are between 25 and 34 years old, and are living in Maputo. But one is an employee of the French oil and gas company Total, and was based at the Total camp in the Afungi peninsula, in Palma district, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado. He was last in Palma between 20 March and 22 April.

The third new case is between 35 and 44 years old and lives in Palma. Thus at least two of the new cases are, in reality, part of the cluster of Covid-19 cases, centred on the Total camp in Afungi.

Of the 170 people tested, said Marlene, 95 were from Cabo Delgado, 32 from Maputo City, three from Maputo province, 7 from Sofala and 13 from Tete.

Broken down by province, 57 of the positive cases are from Cabo Delgado, 17 are from Maputo City and five are from the city of Matola, in Maputo province. But several of those now living in Maputo or Matola were infected when they were in Afungi.

The key Covid-19 statistics for Mozambique by Friday: 79 positive cases, of whom 10 have made a full recovery and 69 are regarded as active cases, and no deaths.

Since the crisis began, 544,237 people (Mozambicans and foreigners) have arrived in the country, and all have been screened. Of these travellers, 1,012 are still in quarantine.

Source: AIM