Mozambique: Twenty-five new COVID-19 cases: cumulative stands at 1,582

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Mozambique: Twenty-five new COVID-19 cases: cumulative stands at 1,582

10:33 CAT | 24 Jul 2020

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Mozambique’s Ministry of Health on Thursday announced that it had registered 25 more cases of new the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 in the 24 hours to Thursday, bringing the cumulative total to 1,582, with no new deaths for a tally of 11. From Wednesday to Thursday, 629 suspected cases were tested in the country.

Of the 25 new cases, 24 are in Mozambican nationals and the other in a Cameroon national resident in the country, according to Mozambique’s director of public health, Rosa Marlene, who spoke at a briefing at the ministry to update pandemic data.

The province of Cabo Delgado had 21 of the new cases, Nampula two, Manica one and the city of Maputo one.

Two of the cases are in children under the age of five, Marlene added.

All the people newly known to be infected are isolating at home and the process of identifying their contacts is underway, the health authorities said.

Of the total number of cases so far in the country, 1,426 were transmitted locally and 156 are imported. Five patients are in isolation centres, one in Nampula, one in Tete, one in Inhambane and two in Maputo City..

528 are deemed to have recovered and there have been 11 deaths.

Active cases

Nampula province continues to register the highest number of active cases, with 241, followed by Cabo Delgado with 224.

The city of Maputo has 183 active cases and Maputo province, which surrounds it, 191, while the remaining seven provinces of the country have fewer than 60 in all.

Mozambique has tested a total of 50,121 people suspected of having the virus, of whom 23,406 have been quarantined, out of more than 1.4 million screened. A total of 2,962 people are still being monitored by the health authorities.

Worldwide, the Covid-19 pandemic has so far claimed more than 627,000 lives and infected more than 15.2 million people in 196 countries and territories.

Among African countries that have Portuguese as an official language, Equatorial Guinea leads in the number of infections and deaths (2,350 cases and 51 deaths), despite having revised the cases downwards after several days without updates, followed by Cabo Verde (2,154 cases and 21 deaths), Guinea-Bissau (1,949 cases and 26 deaths), Mozambique (1,582 cases and 11 deaths), Angola (812 infected and 33 deaths) and Sao Tome and Principe (746 cases and 14 deaths).

The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.

Source: usa / INES