Africa-Press – Mozambique. Twelve days after ordering the suspension of face-to-face classes in all education subsystems in some cities and towns in the country, including the city of Inhambane, in the province with the same name, the government decided on Tuesday (July 27) to extend the measure to city of Maxixe, the second largest city in Inhambane and its commercial centre.
The measure was announced this Tuesday by spokesperson Filimão Suazi at the end of the Council of Ministers meeting. He did not put forward specific reasons for including Maxixe, but clarified that the process of closing schools is coordinated and decided by the ministries of health and education at central level, and that “there can be no closures decided at other levels”.
The city of Maxixe has been identified as one of the main sources of spread of Covid-19, which has already infected 6,979 people in the province, of whom 25 lost their lives, 5,366 are reported to have been recovered, and 1,588 are still infected.
Maxixe therefore joins Greater Maputo (the cities of Maputo, Matola and towns of Marracuene and Boane) and the cities of Xai-Xai (Gaza province), Inhambane (Inhambane), Beira (Sofala ), Chimoio (Manica), Tete (Tete), Dondo (Sofala) and Manhiça in Maputo province, in all of which face-to-face classes are suspended.
Mozambique had, by Wednesday (July 28), a cumulative total 115.886 positive coronavirus cases, of which 1.367 have lost their lives, 86.423 have recovered, and 28.092 are accounted still active, 484 of them hospitalised.
