Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Mozambican health authorities on Monday reported four new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, after one 24 hour period in which no cases at all were identified.
The new cases are two men and two women and all were diagnosed in Maputo city.
According to a Monday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic 968,540 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 451 of them in the previous 24 hours. The great majority of the tests – 447 – gave negative results.
The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the virus) on Monday was 0.88 per cent. This follows rates of zero on Sunday, 0.68 per cent on Saturday, 0.31 per cent on Friday, and 0.37 per cent on Thursday.
Just as on Sunday, no Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital on Monday, and no new cases were admitted. The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities remained four – two in Matola, one in Sofala and one in Zambezia.
The Ministry release also reported that on Monday a further 23 people were declared fully recovered from Covid-19 (12 in Nampula, six in Maputo city and five in Tete). The number of recoveries now stands at 149.460, or 98.1 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.
No deaths from Covid-19 were reported on Monday. Thus the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remains 1,938.
The number of active cases of Covid-19 fell from 109 on Sunday to 90 on Monday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Cabo Delgado, 21; Nampula, 16; Maputo city, 16; Gaza, nine; Zambezia, seven; Niassa, six; Manica, four; Sofala four; Inhambane, four; and Maputo province, three. Tete became the only province in the country with no active Covid-19 cases.
The Ministry also reported that in the previous 24 hours, 16,459 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The Ministry reported no vaccinations at all in four provinces (Cabo Delgado, Niassa, Manica and Sofala). This is quite impossible, and probably means there were delays in reporting the figures from these provinces to the headquarters of the National Health Institute (INS) in Maputo.
To date, 3,372,361 people have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, and 6,190,927 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
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