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No tests from Cabo Delgado, only from Maputo city and province and Gaza yesterday; and no new Covid-19 cases in Mozambique
4:39 CAT | 29 Apr 2020
Photo: A Verdade
For the second consecutive day, Mozambique has not registered any new coronavirus infections on April 28. Only suspected cases from the city and province of Maputo and Gaza province have been tested. There are, however, 80 new suspected cases at Total facilities on the Afungi Peninsula.
“To date, April 28, 2020, 1,772 suspected cases have been tested in Mozambique, 84 of which in the last 24 hours. Of the new cases tested, all returned negative for Covid-19. Of the samples tested in the last 24 hours, 31 were collected in Maputo city, 52 in Maputo province and one in Gaza province,” the National Director of Public Health detailed at a press conference on Tuesday.
Responding to a question from @Verdade, the National Director for Health Survey and Monitoring began by explaining, in relation to the lack of samples from Cabo Delgado for the second consecutive day, although the team of epidemiologists there had been reinforced, “we received earlier this afternoon (Tuesday April 28) about 80 samples that are yet to be tested”.
“The team’s plan is to understand the epidemiological situation beyond the samples and the matrix of relationships and itineraries within the Afungi camps, in order to be able to get more accurate assessments. We are talking about several groups of workers, with various functions, and it is necessary to understand how, in the exercise of their activities, people intermingled and interrelated,” Dr Sérgio Chicumbe clarified.
Dr Chicumbe foresees the National Institute of Health in Marracuene, Maputo province, in the coming days being able to receive 100 new samples daily for testing suspected cases in Cabo Delgado, where about 800 Total oil company workers are currently in quarantine.
Dr Chicumbe revealed that, since the diagnosis of the Cabo Delgado ‘index case’ on the 1st of April, there were areas of Total’s facilities that were now considered decontaminated, and that “the workers who were in quarantine in the camp, in the decontaminated areas, who had tested negative, and after their quarantine was completed, could leave Afungi and return to their areas of origin”.
By Adérito Caldeira
Source: A Verdade
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