Number of Covid-19 cases rises to 65| Nine recoveries, not twelve – Mozambique

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Number of Covid-19 cases rises to 65| Nine recoveries, not twelve – Mozambique

7:07 CAT | 24 Apr 2020

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The number of cases of infection with the new coronavirus officially registered in Mozambique today rose from 46 to 65, announced the Ministry of Health, with no record of deaths.

In the last 24 hours, 114 people were tested, of which 19 were positive for the new coronavirus, according to the national director of Public Health, Rosa Marlene, at the update press conference at the Ministry of Health.

The number represents the biggest rise in a single day since the announcement of the first case in the country, on March 22.

These 19 new cases are all in isolation in the construction area of the mega-project for the exploitation of natural gas in Area 1, whose consortium is led by oil company Total, in Afungi, northern Mozambique. Only one [of the 19 diagnosed in the ast 24 hours] show symptoms.

The new case were detected in the scope of the investigation of the ramifications of a first case of infection detected in Total camp in Afungi on April 2.

Rosa Marlene said that of the 19 new cases, eight are Mozambican and eleven foreign citizens.

She explained that. out of the total 65 positive cases that the country diagnosed, 45 were detected in Cabo Delgado, 15 in the city of Maputo and five in the province of Maputo.

Nine recoveries, not 12

Meanwhile, of the 65 cases accumulated so far, nine people are cured and not 12 as had been announced, the ministry corrected today.

Of the total, 57 are for local transmission and eight are imported, with the authorities having carried out a total of 1,439 tests since the pandemic was declared on March 11, MISAU added.

Globally, according to an AFP report, the covid-19 pandemic has already caused more than 200,000 deaths and infected more than 2.7 million people in 193 countries and territories.

More than 720,000 patients across the world are considered cured.

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

Source: Lusa / INS