Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Mozambican health authorities on Sunday reported only five cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, all of them Mozambican women, and all of them from Zambezia province.
Since the start of the pandemic, 934,702 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 776 of them in the previous 24 hours. 771 of the tests yielded negative results, and five people tested positive for the virus. There were no positive cases anywhere in the country, except for Zambezia.
The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) on Sunday was 0.6 per cent. The rates over the previous week were:
Saturday 24 October 2.1 per cent
Friday 23 October 1.3 per cent
Thursday 22 October 1.2 per cent
Wednesday 21 October 1.5 per cent
Tuesday 20 October 1.8 per cent
Monday 19 October 1.9 per cent
Sunday 18 October 0.7 per cent
The last time the positivity rate went above five per cent was on 21 September, when it reached eight per cent.
In the same 24 hour period, two Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (one in Maputo and one in Manica), and three new cases were admitted (in Maputo, Inhambane and Manica).
The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres rose from 10 on Saturday to 11 on Sunday. Five of these patients (45.5 per cent) were in Maputo. There were also two patients in Niassa, two in Inhambane, one in Zambezia, and one in Manica, No Covid-19 cases were hospitalised in any of the other six provinces.
The Ministry release also reported that over the 24 hour period, 15 people had been declared fully recovered from Covid-19 (eight in Gaza and seven in Cabo Delgado). The total number of recoveries now stands at 148,660, or 98.3 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.
The number of active Covid-19 cases rose from 643 on Saturday to 653 on Sunday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 341 (52.2 per cent of the total); Nampula, 178; Cabo Delgado, 66; Inhambane, 11; Zambezia, 10; Maputo province, eight; Niassa, seven; Manica, five; Gaza, four; Sofala, two; and Tete, one.
No deaths from Covid-19 were reported on Sunday. The total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remains 1,928.
In the same 24 hour period, 98,452 people received their first dose of vaccine against Covid-19. 1,918,756 people are now fully vaccinated against the disease, while 2,288,769 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
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