Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Mozambican health authorities announced that on Sunday not a single new case of the Covid-19 respiratory disease was diagnosed anywhere in the country.
But two people previously diagnosed with the disease died. They were both Mozambican men, aged 90 and 44. They died in Maputo city and in Inhambane. This follows five days without any recorded deaths, and brings the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique to 1,938.
According to a press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 967.353 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 736 of them in the previous 24 hours. All the test results were negative.
No cases means that the positivity rate (the percentage of those tested found to be carrying the virus) dropped to zero on Sunday. The rate over the previous few days was 0.68 per cent on Saturday, 0.31 per cent on Friday, 0.37 per cent on Thursday, and 0.54 per cent on Wednesday.
No Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital on Sunday, and no new patients were admitted. The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities, dropped from six on Saturday to four on Sunday – two of these patients were in Matola, one in Sofala and one in Zambezia.
The Ministry release also reported that a further 18 people were declared to have made a full recovery from Covid-19 (16 in Cabo Delgado and two in Inhambane). The number of recoveries now stands at 149,437, or 98.1 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.
The number of active cases of Covid-19 fell from 129 on Saturday to 109 on Sunday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Nampula, 28; Cabo Delgado, 21; Maputo city, 18; Gaza, nine; Zambezia, seven; Niassa, six; Tete, five; Manica, four; Sofala, four; Inhambane four; and Maputo province, three.
The release also announced that, over the previous 24 hours, a further 38,586 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease now stands at 3,324,849, and 6,158,360 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
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