Mozambique reports two more Covid-19 deaths, 231 new infections

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Mozambique reports two more Covid-19 deaths, 231 new infections

5:33 CAT | 15 Sep 2020

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Two men, 43 and 56 years of age, died of Covid-19 in the cities of Beira and Maputo, according to this Tuesday (September 15) brief of the Ministry of Health (MISAU) which also reports 231 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in Mozambique, bringing the cumulative to 5,713.

The deaths occurred on the 11th and 14th of this month. both in hospital, says MISAU,

Mozambique currently has 37 deaths due to COVID-19.

Also according to the Ministry of Health, the country has a cumulative number of 127 hospitalised individuals due to COVID-19, of which 31 are under medical care in isolation centres.

In the last 24 hours, 231 more COVID-19 confirmed cases were detected out of 1,441 suspected cases tested across the country. The samples tested whose results were reported this Tuesday were collected between August 27 and Septeber 14, MISAU reports.

Of the 231 newly confirmed patients, 221 are Mozambican individuals and 10 are foreign nationals: one is an Indian citizen, nine are Chinese citizens.

Twelve of these newly detected cases are children under five years of age.

Maputo city recorded the largest number of newly reported cases (77), 33.3% ). Maputo province registered 66 new confirmed cases (28.6%).

All of the new cases are locally transmitted.

“Thus, the country has a cumulative of 5,713 positive cases registered”, since last March, “of which 5,430 cases are locally transmitted and 283 are imported”, reveals the Ministry of Health.

Mozepid — *Source; MISAU, September 15 2020*

Regarding those recovered, another 157 people are free of the disease. Among them, 66 are from the city of Maputo, 43 are from the province of Cabo Delgado, 10 from Niassa, five from Tete, two from Zambézia and one from Inhambane.

Of those patients reported as having recovered today, 153 are of Mozambican nationality and four are foreigners.: two Zimbabweans, one Chinese and one Indian.

Currently, 3,181 (55.7%) individuals are totally free from the new coronavirus.

Mozambique currently has 2,491 active cases of Covid-19.

You may read the full MISAU press release from September 15 2020, in Portuguese, HERE.

Mozambique: Two more Covid-19 deaths and record number of cases – AIM report

The Mozambican health authorities on Tuesday announced two more deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and a new record for the number of cases diagnosed in a single 24 hour period.

According to a Health Ministry press release one of the latest victims was a 56 year old Mozambican man who died in Maputo on Friday. It is not clear why it took the Ministry five days to announce his death. The second case was that of a 43 year old Mozambican man who died in Beira on Monday. This brings to 37 the total number of deaths from Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The Ministry release said that, to date, 117,029 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,441 of them in the previous 24 hours. 693 of the samples were tested in private facilities, and 748 in private laboratories.

Of all the samples, 598 were from Maputo city, 347 from Cabo Delgado, 136 from Tete, 122 from Niassa, 91 from Inhambane, 76 from Maputo province, 40 from Zambezia, 16 from Gaza and 15 from Nampula.

1,210 of the samples proved negative, but 231 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This beats the earlier record, set on Sunday, when 229 people were reported as positive in a single day. In three days 673 people have been diagnosed with the disease. The total number of positive cases diagnosed since the start of the pandemic now stands at 5,713.

Of the new cases, 221 are Mozambicans, nine are Chinese and one is an Indian citizen. 117 are men or boys and 114 are women or girls. 12 are children under five years of age, and 10 are over 65 years old.

77 of the new cases are from Maputo city, and 68 are from Maputo province. There are 44 cases from Tete, 24 from Zambezia, 17 from Niassa and one from Cabo Delgado. There was no mention in the Ministry release of the districts from which the positive cases come.

In line with standard health ministry procedure all the new cases are in home isolation, and their contacts are being traced.

In the same 24 hour period, five Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital, four in Maputo city and one in Gaza. 31 people are now under medical care in Covid-19 isolation wards – 27 in Maputo city, two in Gaza, one in Nampula and one in Tete.

The Ministry release also announced that 157 more people have made a full recovery from Covid-19, 66 of them in Maputo city, 43 in Cabo Delgado, ten in Niassa, five in Tete, two in Zambezia and one in Inhambane. Clearly at least one province has been omitted from these figures, which only add up to 127. The Ministry put the total number of recoveries to date at 3,181 (55.7 per cent of all positive cases).

As of Tuesday, the geographical breakdown of all 5,713 positive cases, by the provinces where they were diagnosed, was as follows: Maputo city, 2,327; Maputo province, 1,020; Cabo Delgado, 658; Nampula, 561; Zambezia, 247; Sofala, 197; Gaza, 186; Niassa, 167; Tete, 150; Inhambane, 102; Manica, 98.

The key Covid-19 statistics for Mozambique are now: 5,713 confirmed cases, of which 3,181 have made a complete recovery, and 2,491 are active cases. 41 Covid-19 patients have died, 37 from the disease and four from other causes.

Source: O País / AIM