The Mozambican health authorities on Thursday reported a further 75 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, and 61 full recoveries.
According to a Thursday press release from the Ministry of Health, 39 of the new cases were women and 36 were men. 11 were children under 15 years of age, including an infant less than a year old. The oldest case was 76 years old.
The cases were scattered across the country, but the provinces with the largest number were Cabo Delgado (16), Inhambane (15) and Maputo province (14). There were also seven cases from Maputo city, six from Nampula, six from Gaza, five from Zambezia, three from Niassa and three from Sofala. No cases were reported from Tete or Manica.
Since the start of the pandemic, 1,353,828 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 886 of them in the previous 24 hours. 811 of these tests yielded negative results, and the 75 who tested positive raised the total number of positive cases diagnosed in Mozambique to 228,479.
The positivity rate (the percentage of people tested found to be carrying the virus) fell from 9.08 per cent on Wednesday to 8.47 per cent on Thursday.
Two Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital on Thursday, both in Maputo, and no new cases were admitted. The number of people receiving medical care in the Covid-19 wards fell from 10 on Wednesday to eight on Thursday – three in Maputo, two in Cabo Delgado, two in Niassa and one in Inhambane. None of them were in intensive care.
No further deaths from Covid-19 were reported on Thursday, and so the total Covid-19 death toll in Mozambique remains 2,213.
Of the 61 recoveries, 37 were from Gaza, 23 from Maputo city and one from Manica. The total number of recoveries rose to 225,762, which is 98.81 per cent of all cases of Covid-19 ever diagnosed in Mozambique.
The number of active cases of Covid-19 rose from 486 on Wednesday to 500 on Thursday. The geographical distribution of the active cases was as follows: Inhambane, 121; Gaza, 104; Cabo Delgado, 62; Maputo province, 59; Nampula, 40; Maputo city, 39; Sofala, 30; Zambezia, 19; Tete, 16; Niassa, nine; and Manica, one.
The Ministry also reported that in the previous 24 hours a further 6,653 people were vaccinated against Covid-19. 14,568,788 people are now fully vaccinated against the disease. This is 95.8 per cent of all citizens aged 18 and above.
