Nine new cases and 24 recoveries

Maputo, 24 May (AIM) – The Mozambican health authorities on Monday reported a further nine cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

According to a Monday press release from the Ministry of Health, eight of the new cases were women and one was a man. All were Mozambican citizens, aged between three and 50 years. Five were diagnosed in Maputo city and four in the southern province of Gaza.

Since the start of the pandemic, 1,323,460 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 281 of them in the previous 24 hours.

272 of these tests yielded negative results, while the nine positive cases brought the total number of Covid-19 cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 225,586.

The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be infected with the coronavirus) fell from 5.43 per cent on Sunday to 3.2 per cent on Monday.

The Ministry reported no deaths on Monday, and so the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remains 2,203.

No Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital on Monday, and no new cases were admitted. Four patients were under medical care in the Covid-19 wards, two in Maputo and two in Matola. Two of these patients are in intensive care, receiving supplementary oxygen.

The Ministry reported that 24 people made a full recovery from Covid-19 on Monday (15 in Maputo city, seven in Maputo province and two in Gaza. The total number of recoveries has risen to 223,303, which is 98.99 per cent of all cases of Covid-19 ever diagnosed in Mozambique.

The number of active cases of Covid-19 fell from 91 on Sunday to 76 on Monday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Maputo province, 25; Maputo city, 24; Cabo Delgado, 10; Gaza, five; Inhambane, four; Sofala, three; Niassa, two; and Nampula, Tete and Manica, one each. Zambezia remained the only province with no active cases.

The Ministry release also reported that, in the previous 24 hours, nobody at all was vaccinated against Covid-19. The number of people fully vaccinated against the disease thus remained 14,136,201, which is 92.9 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.
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