Mozambique with 131 deaths from Covid-19, of which 100 in the city of Maputo – Watch

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Mozambique with 131 deaths from Covid-19, of which 100 in the city of Maputo – Watch

1:45 CAT | 01 Dec 2020

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A 76-year-old man died from the new coronavirus in Maputo city on Sunday, bringing the total number of deaths in Mozambique to 131, 100 of them in the country’s capital.

Deputy National Director of Public Health, Benigna Matsinhe, said that the patient, of Mozambican nationality, died as a result of the “worsening” of his health condition during hospitalisation in the Mozambican capital.

In November, there were 39 deaths, in October, 31, and in September, 38, according to the epidemiological analysis presented by the Ministry of Health on Monday. The lowest number of deaths, two, occurred in May. In June there were four, and in July, five.

To date, the country has a cumulative total of 619 inpatients, of whom 47 are still bedridden in Covid-19 inpatient centres and other health units. At least 89.4% of these patients are in the city of Maputo.

Historically, 537 of these inpatients were registered in the city of Maputo, 19 in Nampula, 10 in Maputo province, nine in Gaza and an equal number in Zambézia, seven in Sofala and an equal number in Cabo Delgado and Inhambane. Manica and Niassa registered one bedridden patient each.

“Inpatients suffer from various chronic pathologies, the most frequent of which are arterial hypertension and diabetes,” Matsinhe explained, adding that, of the 47 bedridden patients, “28 have a moderate clinical status, 17 are in severe clinical condition and two in critical clinical condition”.

Covid-19 continues to spread in Mozambique, with more than 88 people testing positive over Sunday and Monday. The result is that 15,701 people have been infected with the new coronavirus in the country, 15,394 of which are local and 307 imported cases.

Fifty-two more people are accounted free of the virus in the country, 22 from the province of Maputo, 17 from Zambézia, 11 from Maputo city and two from Inhambane. All those recovered are of Mozambican nationality.

The total number of people who have recovered rose to 13,729 – 87.4% of the total 15,701 persons infected since last March.

Mozambique currently has 1,837 active cases. Of these, the bulk are from Maputo city, with 1,590, and the smallest number from Niassa, with just five.

The highest positivity rate in Mozambique in the last two weeks was in the capital, Maputo, with 9.9%, followed by the province of Maputo, with 8.0%. These two foci tested, in the period in question, about 4,000 and 1,000 people respectively.

Source: O País / MISAU