Franco Mufinda, in the presentation of the epidemiological situation in the last 24 hours, said that the province of Luanda recorded the majority of infections, with 134 cases, followed by the regions of Huambo (20), Cunene (20), Huila (3), Zaire (3), Benguela (1) and Uige (1), aged between 1 month and 84 years, being 115 males and 67 females.
"Here we noticed the increasing number of new cases in the provinces of the southern region of the country, namely the province of Huila, Namibe, Cunene and Cuando Cubango. Calling the attention of people in these provinces to increasingly redouble the measures of individual and collective protection," said Franco Mufinda.
The deaths are of three males and an equal number of females, between 6 and 88 years old, all national citizens, and three were reported in Luanda, two in Huambo and one in Cabinda.
In the same period 309 people were recovered from the disease, pointing out the governor as a possible factor the immunization, which enables a faster recovery.
From the set of recovered patients, between 1 and 83 years, were notified in Luanda (296), Huíla (8), Kwanza Sul (2), Cunene (1), Kwanza Norte (1) and Benguela (1).
With the numbers of the last 24 hours, for now the country has the cumulative of 32,623 cases, of which 731 deaths, 27,087 recoveries, 4405 active, of which 12 are in critical condition, 44 severe, 189 moderate, 36 mild and 4524 asymptomatic, with 281 patients in hospitalization.
In the last 24 hours, laboratories have processed 1594 samples by RT-PCR, with a daily positivity rate of 11.4 percent, bringing the cumulative to 566,567 samples processed to date, with a cumulative positivity rate of 5.8 percent.
Health authorities have 37 people under institutional monitoring and 2448 contacts under epidemiological surveillance.
This Monday, according to provisional data, 29,855 doses of vaccine were administered, of which 7838 of the first dose and 23,016 of the second, making a total of 824,932 people vaccinated since March 2, the date of the beginning of the vaccination process in Angola, of which 650,003 of the first dose and 171,929 of the second.
At the entry and exit points of Luanda, the only province under sanitary fence in the country, 284 people were tested in this period, of which 240 males and 44 females, with no confirmed case.
"We inform that from January 16 to date at the international airport February 4 we attended 45,778 passengers, who were tested, being 33,698 male and 12,080 female, of the few more than 45,000, 104 tested positive, being 73 male and 31 female," he stressed.
The covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 3,465,398 deaths worldwide, resulting from more than 166.7 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.
