Of the new cases, 15 were registered in Luanda province, 10 in Cabinda, four in Huambo, three in Bié, one in Lunda Sul, aged between 22 and 83, 29 male and four female, detailed Franco Mufinda in a communication broadcast by the Angolan Public Television station (TPA).
No deaths have been recorded in the last 24 hours, and 145 people have been considered recovered from the disease, 56 in Luanda, 32 in Bié, 20 in Huambo, 15 in Zaire, 10 in Lunda Norte, eight in Cabinda, three in Benguela, and one in Cuando-Cubango, aged between 1 and 74.
Angola has 19,829 cases, including 466 deaths, 18,145 recovered and 1183 assets.
Among the active cases, six are in critical condition and 10 in severe condition.
The laboratories processed 1458 samples, a cumulative of 362,440 with a positivity rate of 5.5 percent.
The covid-19 pandemic has caused more than 2,227,000 deaths from more than 102.8 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a balance sheet made by the French news agency AFP.
According to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the African Union (Africa CDC), the number of infected in this continent since the beginning of the pandemic is 3,567,552 and the number of deaths 91,006.
The first case of covid-19 in Africa emerged in Egypt on February 14 and Nigeria was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to register cases of infection on February 28.
Covid-19 is a respiratory disease caused by a coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
