Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Mozambican health authorities reported that Wednesday was the second consecutive day without any deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and no new hospitalisations.
Thus the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remains 1,924.
According to a Wednesday press release from the Ministry of Health, since the start of the pandemic, 921,303 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 1,543 of them in the previous 24 hours.
1,515 of these tests gave negative results and 28 people tested positive for the coronavirus. This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 151,046. Of the positive cases identified on Wednesday, 16 are men and 12 are women. Four are children under the age of 15, and one is over 65 years old.
Eight of the new cases (28.6 per cent) were from the northern province of Cabo Delgado. There were five cases from Gaza, four from Maputo city, three from Nampula, three from Inhambane, three from Zambezia, and two from Maputo province. No positive cases were reported from the other four provinces.
The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) on Wednesday was 1.8 per cent. This compares with two per cent on Tuesday, 1.2 per cent on Monday, 3.4 per cent on Sunday, and 1.9 per cent on Saturday.
Over the same 24 hour period, three Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital, all of them in Nampula, and no new cases were admitted.
The number of people under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment facilities fell from 15 on Tuesday to 12 on Wednesday. Three of these patients were in Niassa, two in Nampula, two in Maputo, two in Gaza, and one each in Manica, Inhambane and Matola. No Covid-19 patients were hospitalised in the other four provinces.
The Ministry release also reported that on Wednesday a further 26 people were declared fully recovered from Covid-19 (20 in Niassa and six in Gaza). The total number of recoveries now stands at 148.064, or 98 per cent of all those ever diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.
The number of active Covid-19 cases rose slightly, from 1,052 on Tuesday to 1,054 on Wednesday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo city, 555 (52.7 per cent of the total); Nampula, 289; Cabo Delgado, 115; Zambezia, 27; Inhambane, 20; Gaza, 19; Niassa, 16; Manica, six; Maputo province, four; and Tete, three. Sofala remains the only province where there are no active Covid-19 cases.
The Ministry also reported that, over the previous 24 hours, a further 4,376 people received their second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19. 1,808,510 people are now fully vaccinated against the disease, and 1,973,519 have received at least one dose.
