According to the epidemiological bulletin of the National Directorate of Public Health, the new cases were reported in the provinces of Luanda (31), Huambo (10), Malanje (7), Huíla (6), Namibe (3), Uíge (3), Cabinda (2), Bié (2), Cuanza Sul (2), Cuando Cubango (2) and Zaire (1), with ages between three months and 79 years, being 37 males and 32 females.
The deaths, of three people, all males, aged between 46 and 73 years, were declared two in Huíla and one in Luanda, while the recoveries, of patients aged between ten months and 86 years, were reported in Luanda (170), Huambo (64), Huíla (15), Cuanza Sul (7), Benguela (2), Bengo (1) and Bié (1).
With the latest data, the country has accumulated 38,682 positive cases, 894 deaths, 33,079 recovered and 4709 active, of which 12 are critical, 19 severe, 57 moderate, 17 mild and 4604 asymptomatic, 105 people are hospitalized, 74 others are in institutional quarantine and 2237 contacts are under epidemiological surveillance.
The laboratories processed 2811 samples by RT-PCR in the last 24 hours, and the number of tests performed so far is 644,704, with a positivity rate of 6 percent.
At the entry and exit points in Luanda, 234 people were tested in the reporting period, on an antigen test basis.
The covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 3,925,816 deaths worldwide, resulting from more than 181 million cases of infection, according to an assessment made by the French agency AFP.
The respiratory disease is caused by the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
