Mozambique: Second consecutive day with no Covid-19 deaths – AIM

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Mozambique: Second consecutive day with no Covid-19 deaths – AIM

4:03 CAT | 20 May 2021

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The Mozambican authorities on Wednesday announced that no deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease had been reported in the previous 24 hours.

This was the second consecutive day with no reported Covid-19 deaths. There have been no deaths from the disease in seven of the past eight days. Thus the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remains 828.

According to a Ministry of Health press release on Wednesday, since the start of the pandemic, 540,123 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,444 of them in the previous 24 hours. Of the samples tested, 498 (34.5 per cent) were from Maputo city, 369 from Gaza, 200 from Manica, 100 from Zambezia, 98 from Nampula, 52 from Cabo Delgado, 49 from Inhambane, 43 from Tete, and 35 from Sofala. No tests were reported from Niassa or from Maputo province.

1,420 of the tests yielded negative results, and 24 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This brings the total number of cases of Covid-19 diagnosed in Mozambique to 70,509. Of the new cases identified on Wednesday, 23 are Mozambican citizens, and one is a foreigner whose nationality has yet to be confirmed. 14 are men and ten are women. One is a child under the age of 15, and three are over 65 years old.

Seven of the new cases were from Maputo city, seven from Gaza, three from Tete, two each from Zambezia, Manica and Inhambane, and one from Nampula.

The positivity rate (the proportion of those tested found to be infected) for Wednesday was 1.7 per cent, the lowest rate recorded this month. This compares with rates of 1.9 per cent on Tuesday, four per cent on Monday, 2.5 per cent on Sunday, three per cent on Saturday, and 2.3 per cent on Friday.

The Ministry release also reported that, over the same 24 hour period, two Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, but two new cases were admitted, all of them in Maputo. The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres remained 22. 17 of these patients (77.3 per cent) were in Maputo, two in Nampula, two in Tete and one in Zambezia. There were no patients in the Covid-19 treatment centres in the other seven provinces.

The Ministry release also announced that on Wednesday a further 28 people were declared to be fully recovered from Covid-19 (24 in Maputo province and four in Zambezia). This brings the total number of recoveries to 68,777, or 97.5 per cent of all those diagnosed with the disease in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases fell from 904 on Tuesday to 900 on Wednesday. The geographical distribution of these cases was as follows: Maputo city, 359 (39.9 per cent); Sofala, 315; Maputo province, 59; Niassa, 43; Nampula, 34; Manica, 24; Inhambane, 20; Tete, 17; Gaza, eight; and Cabo Delgado, one.

Source: AIM