Mozambique: Six days without any Covid deaths – AIM

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Mozambique: Six days without any Covid deaths – AIM

5:35 CAT | 15 Nov 2021

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According to the latest data from the Mozambican health authorities, Friday was the sixth consecutive day without any deaths reported in Mozambique from the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

Thus the total death toll from Covid-19 in Mozambique remains 1.934.

According to a Friday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 956.433 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1.438 of them in the previous 24 hours.

1.434 of the tests gave negative results, and just four people – three men and one woman – tested positive for the virus. One each of the positive cases came from Maputo city, Nampula, Tete and Gaza.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) on Friday was 0.3 per cent. The positivity rates over the past week were as follows:

Thursday, 11 November: 1.8 per cent

Wednesday, 10 November 0.5 per cent

Tuesday, 9 November 0.8 per cent

Monday, 8 November 0.7 per cent

Sunday, 7 November 0.1 per cent

Saturday, 6 November 1.1 per cent

Friday, 5 November 0.9 per cent.

In the past eight days the positivity rate has only exceeded one per cent on two occasions.

Over the same 24 hour period, one Covid-19 patient was discharged from hospital in Maputo, and two new patients were admitted, one in Matola and one in Zambezia.

The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities rose from nine on Thursday to ten on Friday. Six of these patients were in Maputo, and one each in Matola, Inhambane, Zambezia and Manica.

After two days in which no recoveries from the disease were reported, the Ministry said that one person was declared fully recovered from Covid-19 on Friday, This brought the total number of recoveries to 149,350, or 98.6 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases rose from 123 on Thursday to 126 on Friday. The geographical break down of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city. 37; Cabo Delgado, 36; Gaza, 15; Nampula, nine; Niassa, seven; Tete, five; Manica, five; Inhambane, five; Zambezia, three; Sofala, three, and Maputo province, one.

The Ministry release also reported that a further 131,185 people were vaccinated against Covid-19 on Friday. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease has now reached 2,662,225, and 5,334,015 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

Source: AIM