Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Mozambican health authorities reported 1,793 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease over the weekend – 1,252 on Saturday (out of 4,589 people tested) and 541 on Sunday (out of 2,065 tests).
The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the coronavírus that causes Covid-19) has declined slightly – from 29.13 per cent on Friday to 27.28 per cent on Saturday, and to 26.2 per cent on Sunday.
The trends noted earlier this month have continued – a majority of the new cases are women, and by far the worse hit provinces are in the far south.
On Sunday 293 of the new cases were women and 246 were men. 50 cases were children under the age of 15.
82.4 per cent of the cases were from Maputo city and province – 288 and 158 cases respectively. There were also 46 cases from Inhambane, 21 from Gaza, 10 from Manica, five from Cabo Delgado, five from Tete, four from Niassa and three from Nampula. No positive cases were diagnosed in Zambezia.
The positivity rate was much higher in and around the capital than in the north. The rate was 30.97 per cent in Maputo city, and 23.62 per cent in Maputo province, but only 12.2 per cent in Cabo Delgado and 6.3 per cent in Nampula.
Over the same 24 hour period, four Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (three in Maputo and one in Manica), while 13 new cases were admitted (11 in Maputo, one in Inhambane and one in Manica).
The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres rose from42 on Friday, to 48 on Saturday to 55 on Sunday. 41 of these patients were in Maputo, four in Matola, four in Cabo Delgado, three in Inhambane, and one each in Manica, Sofala and Gaza. No Covid-19 patients were hospitalised in the other four provinces.
According to a press release from the Ministry of Health, there were four further deaths from Covid-19 over the weekend, two on Saturday and two on Sunday. The Sunday victims were a 58 year old woman and a 62 year old man, who both died in Maputo city. This brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 1,952.
The Ministry also reported 192 full recoveries from the disease (179 in Maputo city, and 13 in Inhambane) on Saturday, but only four (three in Niassa and one in Zambezia) on Sunday. The total number of recoveries now stands at 150,435, which is 94.1 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.
The number of active cases of Covid-19 continued to rise – from 5,920 on Friday, to 6.978 on Saturday, and to 7,513 on Sunday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 3,206 (42.7 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 2,552; Gaza, 659; Inhambane, 583; Manica, 315; Sofala, 79; Cabo Delgado, 49; Tete, 28; Nampula, 19; Niassa, 12; and Zambezia, 11.
The Ministry of Health also reported that on Sunday, a further 82,777 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 5.404,760, while 7,845,444 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
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