Mozambique may receive by the end of May more than 2.6 million doses of vaccine against Covid-19 to strengthen the fight against this disease that has already killed 800 people and infected 69.228 people in the country.
The information was shared by the Deputy National Director of Public Health at the Ministry of Health, speaking yesterday at the weekly press conference to update data on the evolution of the pandemic in the country and in the world.
Benigna Matsinhe reminded that the Government’s goal is to immunise 16 million people in the country, with several initiatives being carried out for that purpose.
“If everything goes well and there are no delays, we have for the month of May the promise of arriving (to the country) around 2.6 million doses. We will gradually, throughout the year, receive more doses to cover, firstly, 20 per cent of the population, until we reach 16 million people”, Matsinhe explained.
The data is shared in a context in which the country has registered a reduction in the number of deaths and hospitalisations due to Covid-19 since March.
The deputy national director of Public Health said that from Sunday to yesterday the country registered two more deaths due to Covid-19: a 51-year-old man and a 43-year-old woman, both of Mozambican nationality.
In the same period, the country recorded six more admissions and four hospital discharges, remaining 43 patients under medical care in the treatment centres of Covid-19, of which 19 in moderate condition, 17 in serious condition and seven with critical clinical picture. Of the total number of inpatients, 28 are undergoing oxygen therapy and seven ventilation.
Just yesterday, Health notified another 1222 recovered from the viral disease, bringing to 62,315 the cumulative number of people who were free of the disease, corresponding to 90% of the total positive cases recorded since the outbreak of the disease a little over a year ago.
Of the 520 tests conducted in the same period, the country also recorded 25 new positive cases.
