The new cases were reported in Luanda (77), Huambo (30), Huila (11), Cabinda (5), Moxico (3), Benguela (2), Malanje (2) and Uige (1) with ages between 5 months and 96 years, being 64 males and 67 females.
In this period six deaths were reported, two males and four females, aged between 2 and 96 years, being two in Huíla, two in Huambo, one in Malanje and one in Luanda.
However, 416 people were recovered from the disease, with ages between 1 and 86, being 306 in Luanda, 47 in Huambo, 33 in Huíla, 11 in Kwanza Sul, seven in Cuando Cubango, seven in Zaire, two in Benguela, two in Cabinda and one in Malanje.
The laboratories processed 2060 samples by RT-PCR. The total of tests amounts to 618,306 samples, with a positivity rate of 6 percent.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Angola has had 36,921 cases, of which 842 deaths, 30,775 recoveries and 5304 active cases (of which 13 in critical condition and 38 severe), as well as 119 hospitalized patients and 128 people in institutional quarantine.
The covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 3,813,994 deaths worldwide, resulting from more than 176.1 million cases of infection, according to an assessment by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
