The cases were reported in Moxico (35), Huila (21), Luanda (18), Cunene (18), Benguela (2), Zaire (2), Lunda Sul (1), Namibe (1), aged between 5 months and 93 years, of which 49 were male and 49 female.
As for the three deaths (two men and a woman aged between 52 and 91 years), they were reported in Huila (2) and Cunene (1), while 23 people recovered from the disease.
Laboratories processed 2781 samples by RT-PCR in this period and the cumulative points to 776,813 samples processed, with a positivity rate of 5.3 percent.
With Sunday's update, Angola now totals 40,805 cases, of which 957 deaths, 34,755 recovered and 5093 active (including eight critical and seven severe). Eighty-one patients are hospitalized and 106 people are in institutional quarantine.
The covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 4,086,242 deaths worldwide, among more than 189.9 million cases of infection with the new coronavirus, according to the most recent tally by Agence France-Presse.
The respiratory disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China, and currently with variants identified in countries such as the UK, India, South Africa, Brazil and Peru.
