Mozambique: Sharp Increase in Number of COVID-19 Cases

Maputo — This weekend, Mozambique recorded a further 26 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, the largest leap in a single 24 hour period since the pandemic began.

Speaking on Sunday in Maputo, at the Health Ministry's daily press conference on the Covid-19 crisis, the national director of public health, Rosa Marlene, said that to date 8,463 suspect cases have been tested, 516 of them in the previous 24 hours. This is the largest number of tests administered in a single day so far.

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