Among the 49 cases identified in the last 24 hours, two are from Cabinda, local transmission, and the rest from Luanda.
Among those infected are 31 males and 18 females, aged between 8 and 74 years.
Two men, 50 and 53 years old, died and another 31 people recovered.
As of this Thursday, according to Franco Mufinda, Angola will begin massive serological and molecular biology testing whenever justified "on national police officers with the highest exposure, in a sample of 10 thousand people," as well as other risk groups, such as taxi drivers.
Angola has already reported 2015 cases, of which 92 deaths, 698 recovered and 1225 active, of which five were critics under invasive mechanical ventilation and 19 severe.
In the last 24 hours, the laboratories have processed 699 tests, for a cumulative total of 51,074 samples.
More than 100,000 serological tests have also been processed to date, added the Health Officer.
The covid-19 pandemic has already caused at least 781,194 deaths and infected more than 22.1 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected at the end of December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
In Africa, there are 26,289 confirmed deaths in more than 1.1 million people in 55 countries, according to the latest pandemic statistics.
Among the African countries that have Portuguese as their official language, Angola leads in number of deaths and Equatorial Guinea in number of cases. Angola registers 92 deaths and 2015 cases, followed by Equatorial Guinea (83 deaths and 4821 cases), Cape Verde (36 deaths and 3321 cases), Guinea-Bissau (33 deaths and 2149 cases), Mozambique (19 deaths and 3045 cases) and São Tomé e Príncipe (15 deaths and 885 cases).
