Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Mozambican health authorities on Sunday reported a further 266 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.
This was a decline on the 443 cases registered on Saturday or the 379 on Friday. But this decline resulted solely from a smaller number of tests undertaken on Sunday – 1,787, compared with 3,269 on Saturday, and 3,072 on Friday.
The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the coronavirus) has continued to rise. On Sunday it was 14.79 per cent, which compared with 13.55 per cent on Saturday and 12.34 per cent on Friday.
The total number of people tested for the coronavirus in Mozambique now stands at 1,002,885, of whom 153,674 were positive.
Over the previous 24 hours, two Covid-19 patients, both in Maputo, were discharged from hospital, but 13 new cases, again all in Maputo, were admitted.
The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres rose from17 on Saturday to 26 on Sunday. 21 of these patients were in Maputo, four in Inhambane and one in Manica.
Only three people were declared to have made a full recovery from Covid-19 on Sunday, all of them in Zambezia. The total number of recoveries now stands at 149,958, or 97.6 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.
The Ministry release reported that, over the same 24 hour period, two people died of Covid-19, a 67 year old Mozambican woman and a 70 year old Mozambican man. Both deaths occurred in Maputo. The Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique thus rose to 1.944.
With the number of new cases greatly exceeding the number of recoveries, the number of active Covid-19 cases inevitably continued to rise – from 1,507 on Saturday to 1,768 on Sunday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city. 888 (50.2 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 555; Inhambane, 116; Gaza, 96; Manica, 40; Cabo Delgado, 24; Zambezia, 15; Sofala, 13; Tete, nine; Niassa, seven; and Nampula, five.
The Ministry also reported that, in the previous 24 hours, a further 42,252 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. To date, 4,624,860 people have been fully vaccinated against the disease, while 7,105,910 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
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