Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Mozambican health authorities on Sunday reported 56 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease – a decline from the 105 cases reported on Saturday and the 111 on Friday.
According to a Sunday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 986,763 people have been tested for the coronavírus that causes Covid-19, 1,493 of them in the previous 24 hours.
1,437 of the tests yielded negative results. Of the 56 positive cases, 35 were men and 21 were women. The vast majority of new cases – 85.7 per cent – were from the far south (26 in Maputo province, and 22 in Maputo city. There were also seven cases in Inhambane, and one in Cabo Delgado. There were no positive cases reported from any of the other seven provinces.
The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested who are positive for the virus) was 3.75 per cent on Sunday – a decline from the 5.49 per cent on Saturday and the 5.55 per cent on Friday.
Over the same 24 hour period, three Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, but six new cases were admitted, all of them in Maputo. The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities rose from 11 on Saturday to 14 on Sunday – 12 in Maputo and two in Inhambane.
The Ministry release reported no further deaths from Covid-19 on Sunday, and no recoveries from the disease. The death toll in Mozambique from the disease thus remains 1.941, and the total number of recoveries remains 149,575 (or 98.3 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique).
The number of active Covid-19 cases rose from 348 on Saturday to 404 on Sunday. The geographical breakdown of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 178 (44 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 110; Inhambane, 29; Cabo Delgado, 25; Zambezia, 18; Gaza, 16; Nampula, eight; Manica, eight; Niassa, five; Tete, five; and Sofala, two.
The Ministry also announced that, in the previous 24 hours, a further 31,057 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. To date, 4,210,276 people have been fully vaccinated, while 6,741,758 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
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