Of the new cases, 41 were registered in Luanda province, three in Benguela, three in Cabinda, two in Huíla, one in Bié, one in Huambo and one in Uíge, aged between 5 and 67 and 31 were men and 21 women, Franco Mufinda said in a statement.
According to the health authorities two deaths were registered - both in Luanda province - with the deadly victims being two Angolan men aged 35 and 60.
Twenty-one people were considered to have recovered from the disease, of which six in Luanda province, six in Benguela, five in Uige, two in Lunda Sul, one in Bié and one in Huambo, aged between 12 and 54.
Angola now totals 20,454 cases since the pandemic began, including 498 deaths, 18,972 recovered and 982 active cases.
Among the active cases, four are in critical condition and eight are in serious condition.
Laboratories have processed 1566 samples, out of a cumulative 383,737 samples with a cumulative positivity rate of 5.3 percent.
The covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 2,430,693 deaths worldwide, resulting from more than 109.8 million cases of infection, according to an assessment by French news agency AFP.
According to the most recent data from the African Union Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the number of infected people on this continent since the beginning of the pandemic is 3,783,214 and the number of deaths 99,840.
The disease is transmitted by a coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
