Africa-Press – Mozambique. According to the Mozambican health authorities, the number of new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease diagnosed on Friday went above 100 for the first time since September.
A Friday press release from the Ministry of Health said that 111 new cases had been identified that day. This is the first time the number of new cases in a single 24 hour period has exceeded 100 since 21 September, when 134 cases were diagnosed.
Over the past week the number of new cases has risen exponentially – from just four cases on Monday, to 20 on Tuesday, to 46 on Wednesday, to 58 on Thursday and to 111 on Friday. It is not yet clear whether this surge in cases is linked with the omicron variant of the coronavírus that causes Covid-19.
Since the start of the pandemic, 983,357 people have been tested for the coronavirus, 1,999 of them in the previous 24 hours. 1,888 of these tests yielded negative results. Of the 111 positive cases, 61 were men and 50 were women. They were between two and 71 years old.
75.7 per cent of the new cases came from the far south – 59 from Maputo city and 25 from Maputo province. There were also eight cases from Cabo Delgado, six from Zambezia, six from Inhambane, two each from Niassa, Manica and Gaza, and one from Nampula. No positive cases were reported from Tete or Sofala.
The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested who are positive for the coronavirus) is also rising exponentially – from 1.38 per cent on Tuesday, to 2.86 per cent on Wednesday, to 3.12 per cent on Thursday, to 5.55 per cent on Friday.
Over the same 24 hour period, no Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, and two new cases were admitted, both in Maputo city. The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities rose from nine on Thursday to 11 on Friday, all of them in Maputo.
The Ministry release reported that 37 people were declared to have made a full recovery from Covid-19 on Friday. The total number of recoveries now stands at 149,575, or 98.3 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.
The Ministry reported no deaths from Covid-19 on Friday. Thus the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remains 1,941.
The number of active Covid-19 cases rose from 169 on Thursday to 243 on Friday, an increase of 43.8 per cent.
The Ministry release also reported that a further 68,660 people were vaccinated against Covid-19 in the previous 24 hours. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease has now risen to 4,114,267, while 6,685,501 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
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