Africa-Press – Mozambique. The number of new cases diagnosed of the Covid-19 respiratory disease rose sharply on Wednesday, according to the latest press release from the Mozambican Ministry of Health.
46 new cases of the disease were reported on Wednesday – more than twice the 20 cases diagnosed on Tuesday. Over the previous week, the number of new cases reported each day was in single figures.
It is not yet clear whether any of Wednesday’s cases were infected with the omicron variant of the coronavirus, and it is too early to declare that the sudden spurt in cases represents the onset of a fourth wave of the pandemic.
Of Wednesday’s new cases, 42 are Mozambican citizens and four are foreigners (the release did not give their nationalities). 24 are men and 22 are women. They are between three and 70 years old.
Since the start of the pandemic, 979,501 people have been tested for the coronavirus, 1,607 of them in the previous 24 hours. 1,561 of the tests yielded negative results. The 46 positive cases bring the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 151,594.
Most of the new cases – 30 – are from Maputo city. There are also four cases from Gaza, three each from Cabo Delgado, Nampula and Tete, two from Maputo province, and one from Zambezia.
The positivity rate (the percentage of those tested who are positive for the coronavirus) on Wednesday was 2.86 per cent, more than double Tuesday’s figure of 1.38 per cent.
Over the same 24 hour period, three new Covid-19 cases were hospitalised, all of them in Maputo city, and no patients were discharged. The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities rose from four on Tuesday to seven on Wednesday, all of them in Maputo.
The Ministry release reported that 24 people were declared to have made a full recovery from Covid-19 on Wednesday (16 in Nampula and eight in Maputo city). The total number of recoveries now stands at 149,538, or 98.1 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.
No deaths from Covid-19 were reported in the previous 24 hours, and so the death toll from Covid-19 in Mozambique remains 1,941.
The number of active Covid-19 cases rose from 89 on Tuesday to 111 on Wednesday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 49 (44.1 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 15; Cabo Delgado, 13; Gaza, 11; Niassa, eight; Nampula, six; Zambezia, five; Tete, three; and Manica, one. There were no active cases in either Sofala or Inhambane.
The Ministry also reported that, over the previous 24 hours, a further 76,938 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease is now 3,990,777 while 6,608,021 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
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