Mozambique: Increased Urban Moblity Paves the Way for Third Wave of Covid-19

Maputo — The Mozambican health authorities have warned that the increased mobility of the population in the country's urban centres in recent weeks could create the conditions for a third wave of the coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

At the opening in Maputo on Wednesday of the country's Second Scientific Conference on Covid-19, the deputy director of the National Health Institute (INS), Eduardo Samo Gudo, said "There has been a worrying increase in urban mobility in recent weeks. People are spending less time at home, and this is increasing the number of Covid-19 cases per thousand inhabitants, particularly in Maputo city and province and in Tete".

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