Mozambique reports four more Covid-19 deaths, 662 new cases and 547 recoveries

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Mozambique reports four more Covid-19 deaths, 662 new cases and 547 recoveries

12:01 CAT | 13 Jan 2021

File photo: O País

Covid-19 is giving Mozambique no respite and has claimed four more lives, the Ministry of Health (MISAU) reported on Tuesday (January 12). The good news is that 547 people have recovered from the infection, even while a further 662 have tested positive.

Two of the deaths occurred in the provinces of Tete and Manica, and two in the city of Maputo. Of the victims, two were 67-year-old men, one a 30-year-old man, and the other a 57-year-old woman.

“Of the four deaths announced today [January 12] , two deaths were declared on January 10, 2021, and two on January 11,” the MISAU daily briefing reads. [Full text, in Portuguese, HERE]

All are citizens of Mozambican nationality, and their deaths resulted from complications during hospitalisation. This brings the Covid-19 death toll in the country to 201.

This Tuesday, MISAU announced another daily record: 662 people infected by Covid-19, of which 608 were Mozambicans, six foreigners [one Angolan, one German,, one Italian, one French and two South Africans] and 48 of “nationalities not yet identified”. All the newly diagnosed infections resulted from local transmission.

Maputo (city) recorded 240 of the newly diagnosed cases, 36.3% of the daily total, followed by Manica province with 198 new cases, corresponding to 29.9%.

The country performed 2.468 tests during the previous 24 hours, 1,521 in the public sector laboratories and 947 in private laboratories.

Mozambique has now experienced a cumulative of 22,996 coronavirus cases, 22,680 of which are local and 316 imported. As of yesterday, 547 people were declared as having recovered from Covid-19, bringing the total to 18,170, or 79% of those infected.

Of the 547 newly recovered, 406 are from the country’s capital, 57 from the province of Manica, 42 from Inhambane, 27 from Sofala and 15 from Zambézia.

Of those newly recovered, 536 are Mozambicans, nine are foreigners, and two are of nationalities “still to be determined”.

In the previous 24 hours, one person was hospitalised in Nampula province, two in Zambézia and 14 in Maputo city. This makes 135 patients receiving medical care at Covid-19 treatment centres.

The number of active Covid-19 cases in Mozambique has now risen to 4,621.

Source: O País / MISAU