Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Mozambican health minister warned on Saturday that the capacity to hospitalise Covid-19 patients will be exhausted “in a short time” if the infection rate remains high.
“Mozambique may soon enter a situation of lack of availability of beds, unless our behaviour changes in a perspective of proper implementation of prevention measures,” Health Minister Armindo Tiago told journalists, appealing to the population once more to comply with prevention measures.
“Maputo province no longer has beds”
Minister Tiago noted that Maputo province no longer has any beds for Covid-19 patients, and that Maputo city is heading towards the same situation.
“Inpatient capacity in Maputo province has been exceeded and is above 100% and, in the other provinces, although the inpatient capacity is still below 70%, we must understand that the daily level of admissions to hospitals is very high,” the minister revealed.
Zambezia province
In the meantime, as Jornal O País reported this Sunday (July 25), the Mozambican health minister said it was necessary to improve the distribution of oxygen at the Covid-19 treatment centre in Quelimane, Zambézia province.
Zambézia province does not yet have oxygen distribution to all 100 available beds, the newspaper reported, but Armindo Tiago has pledged that the situation will be resolved soon.
Mozambique is in the middle of the third wave of the pandemic, and on Monday reached 1.307 deaths and 111.723 infections, with active cases standing at 25.419 – 15.678 of them in Maputo city and 4.393 in Maputo province.
Following the increase in the number of cases, Mozambique’s President Nyusi tightened restrictions on commerce and the movement of people, bringing forward the beginning of curfew from 22:00 p.m. to 21:00 p.m..
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 4.1 million deaths among more than 192.5 million infections worldwide, according to the latest report by Agence France-Presse.
