The vaccine against Covid-19 may arrive in Mozambique in the coming weeks, according to the French Ambassador in Mozambique, David Izzo.
The French diplomat was speaking to journalists yesterday and explained that European countries are negotiating with the COVAX mechanism to make available the immunizer, stressing the importance of everyone being vaccinated, because this is a global pandemic.
According to the French ambassador, Europe’s effort to provide the vaccine to its population will be null and void if it does not reach other regions of the world, including Africa. “It is a commitment of the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel; the French President, Emmanuel Macron; and the presidency of the European Union,” Izzo said.
Meanwhile, the country recorded six deaths from Covid-19 between Tuesday and yesterday, bringing the cumulative death toll from the disease since its outbreak in March last year to 486.
The deaths occurred in Maputo province and Maputo city, areas considered to be the epicentre of the pandemic.
The number of hospitalised patients rose to 311, with the entry, in the same period, of 32 infected patients, who presented respiratory complications and chronic pathologies such as arterial hypertension and diabetes.
The data on the evolution of Covid-19 released yesterday by the Ministry of Health (MISAU) points out to the registration of 951 new infections, 269 of which in the province of Sofala and 251 in the city of Maputo.
The victims are patients aged between 38 and 83 years who lost their lives in the hospital establishments where they were hospitalised. The new cases are the result of 2788 samples tested in the laboratories of the National Institute of Health (INS) and the private sector.
Thus, the country has a cumulative of 46,736 cases of Covid-19, 46,420 of which are of local transmission and 316 imported. The National Directorate of Public Health reports that all those infected are in home isolation, while the mapping of their main contacts is ongoing.
Among the infected announced yesterday, there are 24 under five years old and 42 adults aged 65 years old. The age group of 25 to 34 years is the one that recorded the highest number of infections, with 248 cases, followed by those aged between 35 and 44 years, with 205 notified episodes.
According to the National Directorate of Public Health, the city and province of Maputo has the highest number of active cases with 12,360 infections, 263 hospitalised patients and 407 deaths.
The number of recovered people has been growing significantly. Between Tuesday and yesterday, 581 people were free of Covid-19, bringing the cumulative number of people recovered to 28,395.
