Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Mozambican health authorities on Tuesday reported a further 120 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, the largest number of new cases in a single day since 21 September, when there were 134 cases.
The number of new cases has risen sharply since the end of November – from just four cases on Monday 29 November, to 20 on 30 November, 46 on 1 December, 58 on 2 December, and 111 on 3 December. In the subsequent four days the number of new cases has been 105, 56, 76 and now 120.
According to a Tuesday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 989,429 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,850 of them in the previous 24 hours.
1,730 of these tests gave negative results. Of the 120 positive cases, 89.2 per cent were from the far south (74 from Maputo city and 33 from Maputo province). There were also eight cases from Inhambane, two from Sofala, and one each from Cabo Delgado, Niassa, and Gaza.
The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested who are positive for the virus) was 6.49 per cent, a decline on the 9.31 per cent registered on Monday, but considerably higher than the rate of 3.75 per cent on Sunday.
Over the same 24 hour period, six Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, all in Maputo, and three new cases were admitted, two in Maputo and one in Inhambane. The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities fell from 13 on Monday to 10 on Tuesday – seven in Maputo and three in Inhambane.
Once again, as on the previous three days, the Ministry did not report any Covid-19 deaths, or any recoveries from the disease. The death toll in Mozambique from the disease thus remains 1.941, and the total number of recoveries remains 149,575 (or 98.3 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique).
The number of active Covid-19 cases rose from 480 on Monday to 600 on Tuesday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 308 (51.3 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 161; Inhambane. 38; Cabo Delgado, 26; Zambezia, 18; Gaza, 17; Nampula, eight; Manica, eight; Niassa, six; Tete, five; and Sofala, five.
The release added that in the previous 24 hours, a further 68,324 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. To date, 4,297,826 people have been fully vaccinated, and 6,801,754 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
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