Mozambique: Three more deaths from Covid-19 reported on Thursday – AIM report

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Mozambique: Three more deaths from Covid-19 reported on Thursday – AIM report

7:00 CAT | 28 Dec 2020

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The Mozambican health authorities reported on Thursday[December 24] the deaths of three more people from the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

This means that six people are known to have died from the disease in the space of 48 hours.

According to a Ministry of Health press release, two of the latest victims were Mozambican men aged 63 and 71, while the third was a 61 year old Mozambican woman. All had been hospitalised in Maputo city, and all were declared dead on Wednesday. This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 156.

The release said that, since the start of the pandemic, 263,522 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,795 of them in the previous 24 hours. Of the samples tested, 1,080 were from Maputo city, 287 from Cabo Delgado, 134 from Maputo province, 111 from Sofala, 69 from Gaza, 41 from Zambezia, 41 from Tete, 16 from Manica, 12 from Nampula and four from Niassa. No tests were reported from Inhambane province.

1,720 of the tests gave negative results and 75 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This brought the total number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Mozambique, since the first case was diagnosed on 22 March, to 18.031.

Of the new cases, 73 are Mozambican and two are Indian. 43 are men or boys and 32 are women or girls. Eleven are children under the age of 15, and four are over 65 years old. In two cases, no age information was provided.

31 of the new cases were from Maputo city, 25 from Zambezia, nine from Nampula, five from Cabo Delgado, three from Gaza, and two from Niassa.

In line with standard Health Ministry procedure, all 75 new cases are now in home isolation, and their contacts are being traced.

In the previous 24 hours, two more Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital (both in Maputo city), and none were discharged. Currently, 39 people are under medical care in the Covid-19 isolation wards (36 in Maputo, one in Nampula, one in Zambezia and one in Tete).

The Ministry also announced that a further 33 people have made a full recovery from Covid-19 (29 in Niassa and four in Inhambane). This brings the total number of recoveries to 16,015 – which is 88.8 per cent of all those diagnosed with the coronavirus on Mozambique.

There are now 1,856 active cases of Covid-19 in Mozambique, distributed as follows: Maputo city, 1,379 (74.3 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 134; Cabo Delgado, 79; Nampula, 65; Niassa, 48; Sofala, 42; Gaza, 37; Zambezia, 32; Inhambane, 19; Tete, 13; Manica, eight.

The Ministry release warned that, with the approaching festive season, Mozambicans should be particularly rigorous in implementing preventive measures against Covid-19 – otherwise the festivities “may become foci for the spread of Covid-19”.

The Ministry recalled that, under the latest government decree on the “State of Public Calamity”, private parties are limited to no more than 50 people, if held in closed or semi-open spaces, or 150 people in the open air. In all cases, distancing of at least 1.5 metres between individuals should be observed.

Source: AIM