Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Mozambican health authorities on Friday reported a further 1,382 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, diagnosed in the previous 24 hours.
This was somewhat higher than the Thursday figure of 1,234 new cases. The number of cases reported in the previous few days were 975 on Wednesday, 733 on Tuesday, and 113 on Monday.
According to a Friday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 1,020,772 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 4,744 of them in the previous 24 hours.
3,362 of the tests yielded negative results, and 1,382 people tested positive for the virus. This brought to 158,111 the total number of cases of Covid-19 diagnosed in Mozambique.
Of the new cases diagnosed on Friday, 776 are women and 603 (which adds up to 1,379, not 1,382 – the release did not explain this discrepancy). 138 of the cases were children under the age of 15.
Once again, the new cases were overwhelmingly concentrated in the far south – 564 in Maputo city and 466 in Maputo province, amounting to 74.5 per cent of the total. There were also 139 cases from Inhambane, 122 from Gaza, 57 from Manica, 19 from Sofala, eight from Cabo Delgado, four from Nampula and three from Tete. No positive cases were reported from Zambezia or Niassa.
The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested who are found to be infected) was 29.13 per cent on Friday, up from 27.62 per cent on Thursday, 24.06 per cent on Wednesday and 19.15 per cent on Tuesday.
But the positivity rate varies wildly between the provinces – in Maputo province it was 38.23 per cent, in Maputo city it was 30.75 per cent, and in Inhambane it was 28.78 per cent. But in the north, the positivity rate was well below 10 per cent (6.7 per cent in Cabo Delgado, and 7.7 per cent in Nampula).
In the same 24 hour period, seven Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (six in Maputo and one in Manica), and 12 new cases were admitted (11 in Maputo and one in Matola).
The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres rose from37 on Thursday to 42 on Friday. 34 of these patients were in Maputo, four in Matola, two in Inhambane, one in Gaza and one in Manica. No Covid-19 patients were hospitalised in any of the other six provinces.
The Ministry release reported that, on Friday, there were no deaths from Covid-19. Thus the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remained 1,948.
A further 33 people were declared to have made a full recovery from Covid-19 – 25 in Gaza and eight in Manica. The total number of recoveries rose to 150,239, which is just over 95 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-9 in Mozambique.
The number of active cases of Covid-19 continued to rise – from 4,571 on Thursday to 5,920 on Friday. The geographical breakdown of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 2,555 (43.2 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 1,993; Gaza, 545; Inhambane, 463; Manica, 211; Sofala, 61; Cabo Delgado, 42; Tete, 19; Nampula, 12; Zambezia, 10; and Niassa, nine.
The Ministry release also reported that, over the previous 24 hours, a further 220,666 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. To date, 5.176,954 people have been fully vaccinated against the disease, while 7,602,216 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
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