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Mozambique: Number of active Covid-19 cases falls – Wednesday brief | AIM report
4:02 CAT | 05 Nov 2020
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The number of active cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease in Mozambique fell on Wednesday to 2,201, compared with 2,408 the previous day, according to a press release from the Ministry of Health.
The release said that, since the start of the pandemic, 194,196 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,861 of them in the previous 24 hours.
Of the samples tested, 958 were from Maputo city, 338 from Cabo Delgado, 196 from Maputo province, 130 from Zambezia, 89 from Sofala, 70 from Manica, 40 from Inhambane, 20 from Gaza, and 20 from Tete.
1,780 of the tests gave negative results, and 81 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This brings the number of positive cases reported in Mozambique, since the first case was diagnosed on 22 March, to 13,283. Of the new cases, 74 are Mozambicans, and seven are foreigners (from South Africa, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, India, Portugal, Australia and Vietnam).
51 of the cases are men or boys, and 30 are women or girls. Four are children under 15 years of age, and one is over 65 years old. No age information was given in two cases.
The great majority of the new cases – 50 – were from Maputo city. There were also ten from Cabo Delgado, eight from Tete, seven from Gaza, three from Maputo province, two from Zambezia and one from Inhambane.
The release said that, in line with standard Ministry of Health procedure, all the new cases are in home isolation, and their contacts are being traced.
In the same 24 hour period, one Covid-19 patient was discharged from hospital in Maputo city, but five new cases were admitted (four in Maputo and one in Zambezia). Currently, 58 people are under medical care in the Covid-19 isolation wards (55 in Maputo, one in Matola and two in Zambezia).
The Ministry also reported that a further 288 people have made a full recovery from Covid-19 (219 of them in Maputo city, 33 in Tete, 30 in Sofala, four in Niassa and two in Inhambane. This brings the total number of recoveries to 10,983 – which is 82.7 per cent of all people diagnosed with the coronavirus in Mozambique since the start of the pandemic.
The geographical distribution of the 2,201 currently active cases is as follows: Maputo city, 1,659; Maputo province, 201; Cabo Delgado, 160; Gaza, 54; Sofala, 39; Zambezia, 29; Manica, 20; Nampula, 11; Niassa, 11; Inhambane, nine; Tete, eight.
No deaths from Covid-19 were recorded in the last 24 hours, and so Mozambique’s Covid-19 death toll remains 95.
Source: AIM
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