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Covid-19: country reports six new cases, plus one death and 20 recovered patients

The country recorded six new positive cases of covid-19, one more death, and 20 people were considered recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, health authorities announced Tuesday.

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Luanda and Cunene are the provinces that recorded the new cases, aged between 22 and 57 years.

According to the epidemiological bulletin of the National Directorate of Public Health, laboratories processed 538 samples by RT-PCR and the cumulative points to 403,964 processed samples with a positivity rate of 5.2 percent.

The hospital units are following 67 inpatients and 28 people are in institutional quarantine.

Angola, which has been in a situation of public calamity since May 26, 2020, whose ninth extension is in effect, now has 21,114 positive cases of covid-19, 921 of which are active, 516 have died, and 19,677 are considered recovered.

The country has already registered new South African and English variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, as Health Minister Silvia Lutucuta announced Monday.

The covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 2,600,802 deaths worldwide, resulting from more than 117 million cases of infection, according to an assessment made by the French agency AFP.

The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.

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