Mozambique confirmed 10 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, June 31, as confirmed by Rosa Marlene, the country’s National Director of Public Health.
During the Health Ministry’s daily COVID-19 conference in Maputo on Monday, Marlene disclosed that Mozambique has tested 10,878 samples since its index case and on Sunday, 617 samples were tested for the virus. Ten returned positive.
Cabo Delgado, the northernmost province of the country remains the nerve center of the outbreak with 145 cases of the virus.
Mozambique has 254 cases of the pandemic, 97 recovered patients, and two death poll.
The data from the nation’s foreign ministry shows that 19 Mozambicans in the diaspora have contracted the disease. One succumbed to the virus in Germany and 11 of them recovered.
Two of the recent cases were confirmed in South Africa and one in Russia.
Despite mount in COVID-19 cases in Sierra Leone, the country records a high number of recoveries in juxtaposition to the number of confirmed cases.
The data released on Sunday, May 31, by the National COVID-19 Emergency Operation Center shows that 52% of the patients put under treatment made full recovery from the virus. Which translates 454 people of 861 cases.
The West African country has carried out a test on 6,442 samples.
Officials in the country stated that the system is working.
Lockdown in Zimbabwe to continue at level two. The nation has 203 confirmed cases of the virus, four death poll, and 29 fully recovered patients.
Dr. Alex Gasasira, World Health Organisation Zimbabwe Representative, stated that the spike in cases requires intensified responses towards curbing Coronavirus.
He further stated that Zimbabweans should not panic but practice proper hygiene and follow guidelines by the Ministry of Health and other public health experts.
Another South Sudan Vice President tests positive to the virus.
The East Central Africa country has five Vice Presidents, three of which tested positive for COVID-19.
Second Vice President, James Wani Igga, recently was confirmed to have been infected with the disease.
Last week in South Sudan, the first and the fifth Vice President, Riek Machar, and Hussein Abdelbagi publicly disclosed their result returned positive.
Some other top officials in the country also tested positive for the virus; Michael Makuei Lueth, the nation’s Information Minister and also Defense Minister Angelina Teny.
South Sudan has 994 cases of the virus, 10 deaths and six recovered patients.
While in Tanzania, Ummy Mwalimu, the nation’s Health Minister announced Monday, June 1, that number of cases in the country declined to just four active cases.