Franco Mufinda mentioned that the death was a critical case that had been being followed for some time in one of the treatment centres, pointing out that the patient also had other preconditions.
According to the Governor, five of the positive cases are from the Hoji-Ya-Henda health cordon, one from Talatona, contact of one of the cases and the last from Benfica, whose epidemiological link is being studied.
Among those infected this Wednesday reported is a four-month-old baby.
At this time, Angola registers an accumulation of 155 cases, of which seven deaths, 64 recovered, 84 assets and 90 local transmissions.
The samples collected to date are 16,419, of which 155 are positive and 14,991 are negative, and 1273 are being processed.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 443,000 lives and infected more than 8.1 million people in 196 African countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
Among the African countries that have Portuguese as their official language, Equatorial Guinea leads in number of infections and deaths (1664 cases and 32 deaths), followed by Guinea-Bissau (1492 cases and 15 deaths), Cape Verde (782 cases and seven deaths), São Tomé and Príncipe (683 cases and 12 deaths), Mozambique (651 cases and four deaths) and Angola (155 infected and seven deaths).
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
