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

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

6:11 CAT | 06 Jun 2021

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The Mozambican health authorities reported that Saturday was the second consecutive day with no deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

According to a Ministry of Health press release, the total Mozambican death toll from Covid-19 remains 837.

Since the start of the pandemic, 599,736 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,533 of them in the previous 24 hours, Out of the samples tested, almost 55 per cent came from the far south – 678 from Maputo city and 162 from Maputo province. There were also 215 from Manica, 156 from Inhambane, 131 from Tete, 124 from Nampula, 33 from Sofala, 22 from Cabo Delgado, seven from Niassa and five from Zambezia. No tests were reported from Gaza.

1,470 of the tests yielded negative results while 63 people tested positive for the coronavirus. 61 of the new cases were Mozambican citizens, while the nationality of the other two has yet to be confirmed. 33 were men or boys and 30 were women or girls. Nine were children under the age of 15 and four were over 65 years old.

21 of the cases reported on Saturday were from Maputo city and 16 were from Maputo province. Thus between them Maputo city and province accounted for 58.7 per cent of the new cases. There were also 17 cases from Tete, eight from Inhambane and one from Manica. There were no positive cases diagnosed in any of the other six provinces.

The positivity rate (the proportion of those tested found to be infected) for Saturday was 4.1 per cent, which compares with rates of 4.7 per cent on Friday, 4.2 per cent on Thursday, 5.6 per cent on Wednesday, and 5.4 per cent on Tuesday.

The Ministry reported that in the same 24 hour period, three new patients, all in Maputo, were admitted to the Covid-19 treatment centres. No patients were discharged.

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 wards rose from 14 on Friday to 17 on Saturday. 14 of these patients (82.4 per cent) were in Maputo. There was also one patient in Matola, one in Nampula and one in Tete.

The release also reported that on Saturday a further four people, all in Zambezia, were declared fully recovered from Covid-19. The total number of recoveries now stands at 69,656, or 98 per cent of all those diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

With the number of new cases far outstripping the number of recoveries, the number of active Covid-19 cases inevitably rose – from 526 on Friday to 585 on Saturday. The geographical distribution of these cases was as follows: Maputo city, 272 (46.5 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 95; Tete, 77; Manica, 37; Inhambane, 31; Gaza, 23; Niassa, 18; Nampula, 11; Sofala, 11; Cabo Delgado, five; and Zambezia, five.

(AIM)

Source: AIM