Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Mozambican health authorities on Tuesday reported 733 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, almost all of them in Maputo city and province.
This is the largest number of cases reported in a single day since 17 August (when 1,033 cases were diagnosed).
According to a Tuesday press release from the Ministry of Health, 377 of the new cases were men and 356 were women. They were aged between one and 82 years.
As has been the case throughout this month, the vast majority of the new cases were from the far south. 365 were from Maputo city and 238 were from Maputo province. This was 82.3 per cent of all the new cases.
There were also 68 cases from Inhambane, 37 from Gaza, 19 from Manica, three from Cabo Delgado and one each from Niassa, Zambezia and Sofala. No positive cases were reported from Nampula or Tete.
Since the start of the pandemic, 1,007,513 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 3,828 of them in the previous 24 hours. 3,095 of these tests yielded negative results, and 733 were positive. This pushed the positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the virus) up to 19.15 per cent.
This was by far the highest positivity rate so far this month. The rate was 14.12 per cent on Monday, 14.79 per cent on Sunday, and 13.55 per cent on Saturday.
Over the same 24 hour period, five Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, and seven new cases were admitted, all of them in Maputo. The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres rose from 27 on Monday to 29 on Tuesday. 24 of these patients were in Maputo, four in Inhambane and one in Manica.
No deaths from Covid-19 were reported on Tuesday, and thus the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remains 1,945.
25 people were declared to have made a full recovery from Covid-19 –15 in Inhambane, six in Cabo Delgado and four in Tete. The total number of recoveries now stands at 149,989, which is 97.1 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.
Since the number of new cases is greatly outstripping the number of recoveries, the number of active Covid-19 cases has continued to climb sharply – from 1,874 on Monday to 2,582 on Tuesday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 1,320 (51.1 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 827; Inhambane, 172; Gaza, 137; Manica, 62; Cabo Delgado, 22; Sofala, 14; Zambezia, 10; Niassa, eight; Nampula, five; and Tete, five.
The Ministry also reported that, in the previous 24 hours, a further 101.979 people had been vaccinated against Covid-19. 4,783,635 people have now been fully vaccinated against the disease, while 7,241,957 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
Mobile brigades are now travelling through the Maputo neighbourhoods, trying to boost the levels of vaccination. The “vaccine caravan”, as it is known, uses only the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which has the great advantage that it only requires a single dose.
The mobile brigades are visiting the places of greatest population concentration, such as markets and bus terminals, offering Covid-19 vaccination to anyone aged between 18 and 50.
The brigades are also taking the opportunity to offer nutritional advice, test citizens for a variety of ailments, and take their blood pressure.
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