The rise in numbers forced the government to update the decree on public calamity with more restrictive measures, which come into force this Monday, including a ban on the entry of foreign citizens from India and Brazil and mandatory institutional quarantine for national citizens and foreign residents from these countries.
Three deaths have been registered in the last 24 hours, two Angolans aged 59 and 60 and one 59-year-old Angolan woman, while 55 other people have recovered from the disease.
Of the new cases, 118 were detected in Luanda, seven in Cabinda, three in Huila, three in Namibe, two in Cunene, one in Zaire and one in Benguela, with ages between 1 and 73 years, being 69 male and 66 female.
Angola totals 28,875 cases, 636 of which died, 24,882 recovered from the disease and 3467 active, 21 of which are critical and 35 serious.
A total of 1589 samples have been analyzed out of 524,965 processed so far.
The national director of Public Health, Helga Freitas, said that 614,184 doses of vaccines against covid-19 have been administered, of which 581,796 were the first dose.
The government has provisionally suspended the administration of the first dose in order to ensure complete protection to all the most exposed people, who received the first dose one month ago.
In addition to the vaccination posts already available (Paz Flor and Mutu Ya-Kevela), health authorities will have from Thursday two more locations (Cidadela Desportiva and Casa da Juventude de Viana), to administer the second dose and finish the process as soon as possible, to then restart the vaccination this time among the population over 40 years.
The covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 3,294,812 deaths worldwide, resulting from more than 158.2 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 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
