Mozambique: New daily COVID-19 cases dropped to below 1,000 on Sunday – AIM

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Mozambique: New daily COVID-19 cases dropped to below 1,000 on Sunday – AIM

5:46 CAT | 09 Aug 2021

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The Mozambican health authorities reported on Sunday that 653 people tested positive that day for the Covid-19 respiratory disease – the lowest number of new cases since 30 June.

On that date, 576 new cases were diagnosed. In the following days, the numbers gradually rose. From 12 July to 7 August, the daily number of new cases never dropped below 1,000, and on five days in July it rose to above 2,000.

Not much can be deduced from one day’s figures. The apparently low number of new cases may simply be a reflection of the fact that fewer tests were undertaken on Sunday than on previous days.

According to a Ministry of Health press release, 13 Covid-19 deaths were recorded on Sunday. These victims were seven women and six men. 12 were Mozambican citizens and one was a foreigner (in line with its standard policy, the Ministry did not give his or her nationality). They were aged between 39 and 102.

Seven of these deaths occurred in Maputo, four in Niassa, one in Nampula and one in Sofala. This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 1,613.

Since the start of the pandemic, 776,609 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 2,511 of them in the previous 24 hours, 1,858 of the tests gave negative results, while 653 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 132,452.

Of the new cases diagnosed on Sunday, 358 were women and 295 were men. 70 were children under the age of 15 and 41 were over 65 years old. For 13 cases, no age information was available.

203 of the positive cases (31 per cent) were from Maputo city, 114 from Inhambane, 77 from Gaza, 72 from Sofala, 52 from Nampula, 50 from Zambezia, 37 from Maputo province, 31 from Manica, 11 from Niassa, five from Tete and one from Cabo Delgado.

The national positivity rate (the proportion of those tested found to be infected by the virus) on Sunday was 26 per cent. This compares with rates of 24.6 per cent on Saturday, 23.5 per cent on Friday, 26.6 per cent on Thursday, and 20.2 per cent on Wednesday. Hence around a quarter of all those tested are found to be carrying the virus.

The provinces with the highest positivity rates on Sunday were Manica (59.6 per cent), Niassa (45.8 per cent), Gaza (34.4 per cent), Sofala (29.1 per cent), and Inhambane (27.3 per cent). Once again the lowest positivity rate – just five per cent – was found in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.

In the same 24 hour period, 54 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (37 in Maputo, nine in Niassa, four in Manica, three in Matola, and one in Sofala), and 39 new patients were admitted (15 in Maputo, 10 in Niassa, seven in Matola, two in Nampula, two in Manica, and one each in Sofala, Inhambane and Gaza).

With more patients leaving hospital than entering, the number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres fell from 430 on Saturday to 402 on Sunday. 265 (65.9 percent) of these patients were in Maputo, 51 were in Matola, 21 in Niassa, 18 in Sofala, 16 in Inhambane, 10 in Zambezia, six each in Nampula, Tete and Gaza, and three in Manica. Cabo Delgado remained the only province where no Covid-19 patients were hospitalised.

The Ministry release also reported that on Sunday 568 people were declared fully recovered from Covid-19 (369 in Maputo province and 165 in Sofala). The total number of recoveries now stands at 102,957, which is 77.7 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases rose from 27,806 on Saturday to 27,878 on Sunday. The geographical distribution of these cases was as follows: Maputo city, 13,564 (48.7 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 6,209; Inhambane, 1,936; Sofala, 1,507; Manica, 1.358; Gaza, 1,180; Niassa, 711; Zambezia, 643; Nampula, 423; Tete, 269; and Cabo Delgado, 78.

Source: AIM