Africa-Press – Mozambique. According to the latest data from the Mozambican Ministry of Health, Wednesday was the fourth consecutive day without any deaths caused by the Covid-19 respiratory disease.
Thus the total Mozambican death toll from Covid-19 remains 1,934
According to a Ministry Wednesday press release, since the start of the pandemic, 953,874 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,532 of them in the previous 24 hours.
1,524 of these tests gave negative results, while eight people (five women and three men) tested positive for the coronavirus. Four of the positive cases were from the north – two in Cabo Delgado and two in Nampula. The four other cases were in Manica, Inhambane, Gaza and Maputo city.
The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) on Wednesday was 0.5 per cent. This compares with 0.8 per cent on Tuesday, 0.7 per cent on Monday, 0.1 per cent on Sunday, 1.1 per cent on Saturday, and 0.9 per cent on Friday. For the past week, with just one exception, the positivity rate has been lower than one per cent.
Over the same 24 hour period, no Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital and one new case was admitted, in Maputo city.
The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities rose from eight on Tuesday to nine on Wednesday. Seven of these patients (77.8 per cent) were in Maputo, with one in Tete and one in Manica.
No recoveries from Covid-19 were reported on Wednesday, and so the total number of recoveries remains 149,349, or 98.7 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.
The number of active Covid-19 cases rose from 95 on Tuesday to 103 on Wednesday. The geographical breakdown of the active cases was as follows: Cabo Delgado, 36; Maputo city, 30; Gaza, 10; Nampula, eight; Zambezia, four; Tete, four; Manica, four; Niassa, three; Inhambane, three; and Maputo province, one. Sofala remained the only province with no active Covid-19 cases.
The Ministry release said that in the previous 24 hours 102,893 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated is now 2.626,676, and 5,072,810 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
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