Africa-Press – Mozambique. For the second consecutive day, the Mozambican health authorities on Wednesday reported no deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease.
Thus the total Mozambican death toll from Covid-19 remains 1,927.
According to a Wednesday press release from the Health Ministry, since the start of the pandemic, 929,667 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,415 of them in the previous 24 hours.
1.394 of the tests yielded negative results, while 21 people tested positive for the virus. This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 151,157. Of the positive cases identified on Wednesday, 12 were women and nine were men. Three were children under the age of 15, and one was over 65 years old.
Ten of the new cases were diagnosed in Maputo city. Three were from Cabo Delgado, three from Gaza, two from Maputo, two from Inhambane and one from Manica. No cases were reported from the other five provinces.
The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) on Wednesday was 1.5 per cent. This compares with 1.8 per cent on Tuesday, 1.9 per cent on Monday, 0.7 per cent on Sunday, and 1.3 per cent on Saturday.
In the same 24 hour period, just one Covid-19 patient was discharged from hospital (in Niassa), while two new cases were admitted (in Niassa and Manica).
The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities rose from 10 on Tuesday to 11 on Wednesday. Five of these patients (45.5 per cent) were in Maputo, three were in Niassa, and there was one each in Nampula, Manica and Inhambane. No Covid-19 patients were hospitalised in the other six provinces.
The Ministry release also reported that on Wednesday a further 11 people were declared fully recovered from Covid-19, all of them in Zambezia. The total number of recoveries now stands at 148,594, or 98.3 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.
The number of active cases of Covid-19 rose from 622 on Tuesday to 632 on Wednesday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 318 (50.3 per cent of the total); Nampula, 199; Cabo Delgado, 50; Niassa, 21; Inhambane, 18; Gaza, eight; Zambezia, seven; Maputo province, six; Manica, three; Tete, one; and Sofala, one.
Over the same 24 hour period, 2,398 people received their second dose of the Astra-Zeneca vaccine against Covid-19. 1,831,000 people are now fully vaccinated, and 1,973,519 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
The third phase of the National Vaccination Campaign began on Wednesday, and will run until 3 November. In this phase, anyone aged between 30 and 49 in the urban areas, and anyone 30 years old or more in the countryside is eligible to receive the vaccine.
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