AfricaPress-mozambique: Mozambique’s health minister, Armindo Tiago, on Wednesday said that the country should prepare for “the worst-case scenario” of a third wave of Covid-19 to better prevent it.
“We want to be ready for the worst scenario, because only in this way can we protect society against the impacts of the pandemic,” he said at the opening of a scientific conference on Covid-19 in Maputo.
A readiness that should not be built on panic, but with realism and informed by scientific evidence, he added.
“In our region, countries like South Africa, Namibia and Zambia are already suffering the effects of the third wave. In Namibia and Zambia, this third wave is more intense than the first two,” Armindo Tiago said.
“The relative success we have had so far in controlling Covid-19 should not serve to feed the illusion that we have defeated the pandemic” and early relaxation can have dramatic consequences, as illustrated by the tragic situation experienced in some countries in South America and Asia.
At the opening of the conference, he stressed that scientific evidence indicates that the correct implementation of prevention measures continue to be the most effective tool in the response against Covid-19 during the coming months.
Mozambique has a cumulative total of 844 deaths and 71,764 cases of Covid-19, 97% of which have been recovered and 32 hospitalised.
