Mozambique reports six more Covid-19 deaths, and 543 new cases (Thursday January 14)

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Mozambique reports six more Covid-19 deaths, and 543 new cases (Thursday January 14)

2:04 CAT | 15 Jan 2021

Mozambique had 5,702 active Covid-19 cases on Thursday.

Six more patients, all of Mozambican nationality, have died of Covid-19 in the country, the Ministry of Health (MISAU) reported this Thursday (January 14).

Of the six deaths, three occurred in the city of Maputo, and one each in Nampula, Gaza and Maputo provinces. “Of these, one death was declared on January 8, 2021, two deaths were declared on January 12, 2021, and three deaths were declared on January 13, 2021,” the MISAU brief discloses. [Full text, in Portuguese, HERE].

The casualties are men aged 35, 62, 70, 71 and 86, plus one 73-year-old woman. All died “after the deterioration of their health status during hospitalisation in hospital units in the provinces of Nampula, Gaza, Maputo and in Maputo city,” the communique reads.

“The six deaths announced today equal the maximum number of fatalities caused by Covid-19 announced in a single day in Mozambique since the first death on May 20, 2020. The previous maximum number of deaths announced in a single day was on [Saturday] January 9, 2021,” MISAU adds.

Forty-five people died of Covid-19 in the first two weeks of this month, a number never before seen in the 10 months of fighting the pandemic in Mozambique. This brings the Covid-19 death toll to 211, of whom 169 died in Maputo city.

Of the 1,700 individuals tested in the last 24 hours, 543 were positive for the new coronavirus. Among them, 529 are Mozambicans, one is of Turkish nationality and 13 are of nationalities yet to be determined.

Of the infections reported this Thursday, 178 occurred in the city of Maputo and 161 in Maputo province.

A total of 1,061 patients have so far been hospitalised in Mozambique, of whom 150 are currently in Covid-19 inpatient centres and other hospital units. Eighty percent of those hospitalised are in the city of Maputo.

“In the last 24 hours, we registered a total of 27 new hospital admissions [in the country]: three n Cabo Delgado province, one in Nampula province, three in Tete province, three in Manica province, and 17 in Maputo city,” the MISAU report reveals. “In the same period, the country saw eleven patients discharged from hospital: two in Cabo-Delgado, one in Nampula, one in Tete and two in Manica provinces, and five in the city of Maputo,” the same source adds.

Seventy individuals were yesterday reported as having fully recovered, 29 in Tete province, 28 in Nampula, and 13 in Zambézia. This brings the cumulative total of recoveries to 18,352, representing 75.6% of the total infected.

According to Thursday’s update, the country now has 5,702 active Covid-19 cases.

The Ministry of Health says that, since the outbreak of the disease in the country, 3,802,405 people have been screened at different points of entry. Of these, 75,693 completed home quarantine, with 10,435 still in that situation, and 2,892 positive case contacts are being followed up.