Mozambique reports six Covid-19 deaths, and 133 more cases

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Mozambique reports six Covid-19 deaths, and 133 more cases

8:28 CAT | 13 Nov 2020

File photo: Lusa

Mozambique’s Ministry of Health today reported the deaths of six patients with coronavirus, its highest ever daily COVID-19 death toll, bringing the total number of deaths to 110, on a day when 133 more confirmed cases were also reported.

Two of these deaths were of women, aged 26 and 51 years old, from the provinces of Inhambane and Gaza, who died on the 10th and 12th of November,, reads the MIsau statement. [Full report, in Portuguese, HERE]

Four of the deaths reported today were of men, all from Maputo City. Two were 67 years old and both died on the 12th. Another two patients , aged 70 and 76 years old, died in Maputo city on the 12th and 13th, respectively, reads the communique.

The document also indicates that, ou of “1.327 suspected cases tested “in the past 24 hours,” another 133 coronavirus cases have been confirmed , bringing the total number of cases to 14,227, of which 13,923 are locally transmitted and 304 imported.

Today, the Ministry of Health also 104 new recoveries, rising the total to 12,238 (86%).

Accordig to the statement there i currently a cumulative of 534 inpatients.

The city of Maputo, the country’s capital, has the highest number of active cases, with a total of 1,254, followed by Maputo province, with 230. The remaining provinces have less than 185 cases.

Since the announcement of the first case in the country, on March 22, a total of 208,123 suspected cases have been tested.

In Africa, there are 46,505 confirmed deaths in more than 1.9 million people infected in 55 countries, according to the most recent statistics on the pandemic in that continent.

The Covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,294,539 deaths in more than 52.7 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report made by the French agency AFP.

Source: Lusa