Mozambique reports seven Covid-19 deaths and 689 new cases

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Mozambique reports seven Covid-19 deaths and 689 new cases

1:18 CAT | 18 Jan 2021

Mozambique’s Ministry of Health this Sunday [January 17] announced seven more deaths from Covid-19 – five in Maputo city and two in Maputo province. One death was declared on January 7, one on Thursday (January 14), four deaths on Friday and one on Saturday. MISAU also reported 689 new cases of infection with the new coronavirus.

With the 18 deaths reported on Saturday, MISAU’s reported weekend death toll stood at 25, the highest since the outbreak of the disease in Mozambique about 10 months ago.

Seventy-five deaths have been reported in January so far, more than double those reported in the previous two months (39 in November and 35 in December).

Of the fatalities reported this Sunday, six are men and one a woman. All are Mozambicans, with ages ranging from 55 to 65 years old.

Currently, 207 patients are hospitalised with Covid-19, 83.6% of them in Maputo city.

“In the last 24 hours, we registered a total of 13 new hospitalizations: one in Sofala province, 1 in Gaza province, two in Maputo province and nine in Maputo city,” MISAU reported yesterday. Four patients were discharged from hospital over the same period – one in Sofala province and three in Maputo city.”

Of the 689 newly diagnosed cases reported on Sunday, 290 are in Maputo city, 138 in the province of Inhambane, 81 in Gaza, 52 in Sofala, 33 in Maputo (province), 25 in Nampula, 21 in Zambézia, 19 in Niassa, 16 in Tete , 14 in Manica and Cabo Delgado province has reported no new cases.

The country thus has a cumulative total of 26,551 positive cases. Of these, 26,235 are counted as local transmission and 316 as imported.

A further 92 patients are said to have fully recovered, 71 in Niassa province and 21 in Manica, all of Mozambican nationality, bringing the cumulative of recoveries to 18,607 (70.1% of all registered cases).
Mozambique currently acknowledges 241 Covid-19 deaths, 26,551 confirmed cases – 7,699 of them active and with 207 patients hospitalised – and 18,607 recoveries.

You may read the full MISAU press release, in Portuguese, HERE

Ncpr.misau_ — ***Tests per Province reporte on January 17 2021: Public Sector Laboratories, Private Sector Laboratories, Total number of Tests performed , Negative Results, Positive Results. [Source: MSAU]***

Nc.misau_ — ***Daily distribution of new cases per Province: Male ,Female; on January 17 2021. [Source: MISAU]***

Cvage17.misau_ — ***Newly diagnosed COVID-19 cases per age group, on January 17 2021. [Source: MISAU]***

Hospit.misau_ — COVID-19 hospitalised patients per Province: Cumulative of hospitalisations, Discharges in the last 24 hours, Admissions in the last 24 hours, Deaths in the last 24 hours, Currently hospitalised; on January 17 2021.[Source: MISAU]

COVID-19: 689 new cases and seven deaths

The Mozambican health authorities on Sunday reported 689 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and seven deaths.

This number of deaths is second only to the 18 reported on Saturday.

According to a Ministry of Health press release, the latest victims were six Mozambican men and one Mozambican woman. Four were over 65 years old, and three were aged between 55 and 64. Five were hospitalised in Maputo city health units, and two in Maputo province.

One of the deaths was declared on 7 January, and there was no explanation for why it took ten days for this death to enter the Ministry’s statistics. One death was declared on Thursday, four on Saturday and one on Sunday. This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 241.

The Ministry release said that, since the start of the pandemic, 304,511 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 2,757 of them in the previous 24 hours. Of the samples tested, 1,242 were from Maputo city, 498 from Cabo Delgado, 309 from Inhambane, 155 from Gaza, 134 from Nampula, 114 from Maputo province, 95 from Zambezia, 94 from Sofala, 50 from Tete, 37 from Niassa, and 29 from Manica.

2,068 of the tests gave negative results, and 689 people tested positive for the coronavirus. Almost 25 per cent of those tested were positive. This brings the total number of infections detected in Mozambique to 26,551.

658 of the new cases are Mozambicans, and the nationality of the remaining 31 has yet to be ascertained. 374 are men or boys, and 315 are women or girls. 61 are children under 15 years of age, and 32 are over 65 years old. In 52 cases, no age information was available.

290 cases were from Maputo city and 33 from Maputo province. Thus Maputo city and province accounted for 47 per cent of the cases reported on Sunday. There were also 138 cases from Inhambane, 81 from Gaza, 52 from Sofala, 25 from Nampula, 21 from Zambezia, 19 from Niassa, 16 from Tete and 14 from Manica. None of the almost 500 people tested in Cabo Delgado was positive for the virus.

In the same 24 hour period, four Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (three in Maputo city, and one in Sofala), but 13 new cases were admitted (nine in Maputo city, two in Maputo province, one in Gaza and one in Sofala).

The release said there are now 207 people under medical care in the Covid-19 isolation wards. The great majority of them – 173 – are in Maputo city. There are also seven in Tete, six in Zambezia, five in Nampula, five in Manica, four in Sofala, three in Inhambane, two in Matola, one in Cabo Delgado and one in Gaza.

A further 92 people were reported as making a full recovery from Covid-19 (71 in Niassa and 21 in Manica). This brings the total number of recoveries to 18,607 – which is 70.1 per cent of all those diagnosed with the coronavirus in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases has risen to 7,699. Their distribution is as follows: Maputo city, 3,664 (47.6 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 1,273; Manica, 498; Sofala, 431; Gaza, 383; Inhambane, 340; Zambezia, 288; Cabo Delgado, 248; Nampula, 227; Niassa, 219; and Tete,