Mozambique: More than 800 new COVID-19 cases for second consecutive day – AIM

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Mozambique: More than 800 new COVID-19 cases for second consecutive day – AIM

7:29 CAT | 03 Jul 2021

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For the second consecutive day, the Mozambican health authorities on Friday reported over 800 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

New infections are now running at a rate not seen since mid-February. There were 801 cases reported on Thursday, and 869 on Friday.

According to a Friday Ministry of Health press release, since the start of the pandemic 604,427 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 3,723 of them in the previous 24 hours. This is the largest number of people tested in a single day since early March.

Of the samples tested, 919 were from Maputo city, 830 from Tete, and 504 from Maputo province. Thus the Covid-19 hotspots in Maputo and Tete accounted for 60.5 per cent of the tests. There were also 247 tests in Cabo Delgado, 215 in Sofala, 211 in Niassa, 192 in Manica, 191 in Nampula, 186 in Gaza, 122 in Zambezia, and 106 in Inhambane.

2,854 of the tests gave negative results, while 869 tested positive for the coronavirus. This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 78,074.

There were 285 positive cases in Tete, 212 in Maputo city and 144 in Maputo province. Thus these three provinces accounted for 74.1 per cent of all the positive cases diagnosed on Friday. There were also 66 positive cases in Manica, 63 in Sofala, 60 in Gaza, 13 in Zambezia, 11 in Niassa, 10 in Inhambane, and five in Nampula. Although a large number of people – 247 – were tested in Cabo Delgado, not a single positive case was detected.

The national positivity rate (the proportion of people tested who are infected with the coronavirus) detected on Friday was 23.3 per cent. This compares with 27.9 per cent on Thursday and 24.4 per cent on Wednesday.

A provincial breakdown shows that there are very high positivity rates in Maputo and Gaza, and in a large swathe of central Mozambique, covering Tete, Manica and Sofala. But north of the Zambezi positivity rates are much lower, falling to less than ten per cent in three provinces.

The highest positivity rates on Friday were in Tete and Manica, both slightly higher than 34.3 per cent, followed by Gaza (32.3 per cent), Sofala (29.3 per cent), Maputo province (28.6 per cent), and Maputo city (23.1 per cent).

The rates north of the Zambezi were 10.6 per cent in Zambezia, 5.2 per cent in Niassa, 2.6 per cent in Nampula and zero in Cabo Delgado (since no positive cases at all were detected on Friday, for the second consecutive day).

The Ministry also reported a further four Covid-19 deaths, two men and two women, all Mozambican citizens, and aged between 32 and 65. The deaths occurred in Maputo, Inhambane, Sofala and Tete. They bring Mozambique’s total Covid-19 death toll to 888.

On Friday, 29 Covid-19 patients left hospital (23 in Maputo, three in Tete, one in Matola, one in Sofala and one in Matola), but 34 new cases were admitted (26 in Maputo, three in Tete, three in Sofala, one in Zambezia and one in Niassa),

There were 199 patients under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres – exactly the same number as on Thursday, 134 of these cases (67.3 per cent) were in Maputo. There were also 24 patients in Tete, 20 in Sofala, eight in Matola, four in Niassa, three in Zambezia, three in Inhambane, two in Manica, and one in Nampula, There were no patients in the Covid-19 wards in Cabo Delgado or Gaza.

The Ministry also reported that on Friday 118 people were declared fully recovered from Covid-19 (82 in Maputo province, 18 in Sofala, 15 in Gaza and three in Zambezia). This brings the total number of recoveries to 71,609, which is 91.7 per cent of all those diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

With the number of new cases greatly outstripping both deaths and recoveries, the number of active Covid-19 cases is continuing to grow rapidly, rising from 4,826 on Thursday to 5,573 on Friday. The geographical breakdown of these cases was as follows: Maputo city, 2,483 (44.6 per cent of the total); Tete, 1,139; Maputo province, 922; Sofala, 376; Manica, 216; Inhambane, 124; Gaza, 121, Niassa, 84; Zambezia, 48; Nampula, 28; and Cabo Delgado, 32.

Source: AIM