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The Mozambican health authorities on Thursday announced a further seven new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease and 46 recoveries.
According to the latest press release from the Ministry of Health, the cases identified on Thursday were four women and three men, aged between two and 35. Five were Mozambican citizens and two were foreigners (the release did not reveal their nationalities). All seven cases were from the south of the country – four were diagnosed in Maputo province, two in Maputo city and one in Inhambane.
Since the start of the pandemic, 1,321,766 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 406 of them in the previous 24 hours.
399 of these tests yielded negative results, while the seven positive cases brought the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 225,546.
The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be infected with the coronavirus) fell from 3.75 per cent on Wednesday to 1.72 per cent on Thursday.
Once again, the Ministry release reported no further deaths from Covid-19, and so the total death toll in Mozambique from the disease remains 2,201.
The hospitalization situation remained unchanged. No Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, and no new cases were admitted. There were just four people undergoing medical treatment in the Covid-19 wards, three in Maputo, and one in Matola. Three of them were in intensive care, receiving supplementary oxygen.
Of the 46 people declared to have made a full recovery on Thursday, 18 were from Cabo Delgado, 18 from Maputo city, seven from Maputo province and three from Gaza. The total number of recoveries now stands at 223,274 – which is 98.99 per cent of all cases of Covid-19 ever diagnosed in Mozambique.
The number of active cases of Covid-19 fell from 106 on Wednesday to 67 on Thursday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo province, 24; Maputo city, 20; Cabo Delgado, 11; Inhambane, three; Niassa, Sofala and Gaza, two each; Nampula, Tete and Manica, one each. Only Zambezia province had no active cases at all.
The Ministry also reported that, in the previous 24 hours, a further 7,896 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The total number fully vaccinated rose to 14,098,645, which is 92.7 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.
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