Mozambique: Jump in Coronavirus Cases Reported From Maputo

Maputo — The Mozambican authorities on Sunday reported a further 53 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, with over half of them diagnosed in Maputo city, the largest one day jump in cases so far recorded in the capital.

A Sunday press release from the Ministry of Health said that, since the start if the pandemic, 52,422 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 978 of them in the previous 24 hours. 710 of the tests were carried out in public facilities and 268 in private laboratories. The private sector only tested samples from Cabo Delgado (188) and from Maputo city (80).

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