Sunday, 17 May 2020: New foci in Manica and Tete; 137 positive Covid-19 cases in Mozambique, – A Verdade

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Sunday, 17 May 2020: New foci in Manica and Tete; 137 positive Covid-19 cases in Mozambique, – A Verdade

2:38 CAT | 18 May 2020

Image: A Verdade / Graphics by Nuno Teixeira

“Our country has 137 positive cases of Covid-19, of which 114 are locally transmitted cases and 23 imported,” National Director of Public Health Dr. Rosa Marlene announced this Sunday (17), revealing the emergence of two new foci of the pandemic in the provinces of Manica and Tete.

A further 276 tests were performed at the National Institute of Health (INS) between Saturday and Sunday, of which eight came back positive for Covid-19. “Seven are Mozambican nationals and one a Zambian national. We would like to point out that five cases present no symptoms and two mild symptoms,” Dr Marlene detailed.

“Of these, based on their geographic distribution, in Maputo city, we had a 32-year-old male. We also had (in Maputo city) a 22-year-old female, who recently returned from South Africa and whose sample was collected at the Salamanga Transit Centre, in Matuitíne district, Maputo province, on the 8th of May. This case is in isolation at home, in the province of Inhambane,” Dr Marlene observed.

Dr Rosa Marlene told a press conference on Sunday that, “of the people who tested positive in Maputo province, we have in the city of Matola a male person, 34 years old, who recently returned from South Africa, whose sample was collected at the Manguaza Transit Centre, in Moamba district, Maputo province, on May 10, 2020″.

“From the Province of Manica we have a sample in the district of Machaze – a male, 35 years of age, who recently returned from South Africa and whose sample was collected in the province of Manica on 11 May. From Tete province, in the city of Tete, we have a 25-year-old female. In the province of Cabo Delgado, in Palma district, Afungi, we have three male individuals, aged 26, 31 and 57,” the National Director of Public Health revealed.

@Verdade learned that the three newly cases in the Afungi Peninsula, one of them of Zambian nationality, are all employees of Total, bringing the cumulative number of infected workers in the company to 78. They were diagnosed in the re-testing on 415 individuals who were obliged to stay in the camps to ensure minimum services in the Mozambique LNG project.

Dr. Rosa Marlene also clarified, in a response to a question from @Verdade, that 22 passengers entered Mozambique on one of the last commercial international flights to land at Mavalane International Airport. “All 22 passengers on the Ethiopian Airlines flight of May 8 were tested, and some test results have already been announced,” she replied.

Two of the passengers were diagnosed with Covid-19 on Saturday (16): a 35-year-old citizen who is in isolation at home in the city of Boane, and a 35-year-old male individual who is under quarantine in Gaza province.

By Adérito Caldeira

Source: A Verdade