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The Mozambican health authorities on Tuesday reported three new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory
disease, and one death. The latest victim was a 25 year old woman who died in the central province of Sofala. This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 1,939.
According to a Tuesday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 969,546 people have been tested for the coronavírus that causes Covid-19, 1,006 of them in the previous 24 hours. 1.003 of the tests gave negative results. Of the three positive cases, all are Mozambican citizens. Two are women and one is a man, with ages ranging between 20 and 38. One was diagnosed in Maputo, one in Sofala and one in Nampula.
The number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique now stands at 151,495.
The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the virus) on Tuesday was 0.2 per cent.
Over the previous few days the rate was 0.88 per cent on Monday, zero on Sunday, 0.68 per cent on Saturday, 0.31 per cent on Friday, and 0.37 per cent on Thursday.
Over the same 24 hour period, no Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, and one new case was admitted in Maputo.
The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities remained four – two in Matola, one in Maputo and one in Zambezia.
The Ministry release reported no recoveries from Covid-19 on Tuesday. Thus the total number of recoveries remains 149,460, or 98.1 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.
The number of active cases of Covid-19 rose from 90 on Monday to 92 on Tuesday.
The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Cabo Delgado, 21; Nampula, 17; Maputo city, 17; Gaza, nine; Zambezia, seven; Niassa, six; Manica, four; Sofala, four; Inhambane, four; and Maputo province, three.
Tete remained the only province with no active Covid-19 cases.
The Ministry also reported that, in the previous 24 hours, 62,469 people were vaccinated against Covid-19.
To date, 3,449.256 people have been fully vaccinated against the disease, and 6,257,220 have received at least one dose of the vaccine
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