Africa-Press – Mozambique. On Friday, for the fourth consecutive day, the Mozambican health authorities recorded no deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease.
The total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique thus remained 1.926.
According to a Friday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 965,726 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,591 of them in the previous 24 hours.
1,586 of these tests gave negative results and five people tested positive for the virus. All of these new cases were of Mozambican nationality. Four were women and one was a man. Two were from Cabo Delgado, two from Nampula and one from Sofala. The total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in the country has now risen to 151,477.
The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) onFriday was 0.31 per cent. The rates earlier in the week were:
Thursday 18 November 0.37 per cent
Wednesday 17 November 0.54 per cent
Tuesday 16 November 1.47 per cent
Monday 15 November 0.8 per cent
Sunday 14 November 0.9 per cent
Saturday 13 November 0.5 per cent
Thus over the past week the positivity rate has only exceeded one per cent on one day.
The Ministry release reported that, over the same 24 hour period, no Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital and no new patients were admitted. Seven people were under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities, the same number as on Thursday. Two of these cases were in Maputo, two in Matola, and one each in Zambezia, Sofala and Inhambane.
A further 12 people were declared fully recovered from Covid-19 (six in Gaza, five in Manica and one in Zambezia). The total number of recoveries now stands at 149,429, or 98.7 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.
The number of active Covid-19 cases fell from 125 on Thursday to 118 on Friday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Cabo Delgado, 34; Nampula, 28; Maputo city, 16; Gaza, eight; Zambezia, six; Niassa, five; Tete, five; Inhambane, five; Manica, four; Sofala, four; and Maputo province, three.
The Ministry release also reported that, in the previous 24 hours, a further 59,558 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated against the diseased is now 3,205,808, while 6,057,629 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
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