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Covid-19: Angola with 73 new infections and no deaths in the last 24 hours

Angola has registered another 73 new cases of covid-19, of which one in Lunda Sul province, which leaves the country with only three regions free of the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus, health authorities informed this Sunday.

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According to the Secretary of State for Public Health, Franco Mufinda, with this Sunday's numbers the country registers a cumulative of 2624 cases, maintaining the 107 deaths.

Of the total number of cases reported in the last 24 hours two were registered in the province of Kwanza Norte, one in Cabinda, one in Lunda Sul and the rest in Luanda, 41 were male and 32 female, with ages ranging from 5 to 85 years.

Franco Mufinda also announced the recovery of 22 patients, making a total of 1063 people given as recovered.

About the first case in Lunda Sul, the ruler said that a citizen who violated Luanda's health fence was quarantined and his condition as infected was detected at that time.

"Thus we are left with only three provinces without cases, Cuando Cubango, Huambo and Namibe," he said.

With this Sunday's numbers, Angola has 1454 active, of which two people are in critical condition, under invasive mechanical ventilation, 23 severe, 36 moderate, 47 mild and 1346 asymptomatic.

Regarding the laboratory, in the last 24 hours 316 samples have been processed, of which 73 are positive, adding up to a total of 56,461 samples processed by molecular biology, of which 2624 are positive to date.

The mass testing of the taxi drivers will start this Monday, in two points of the city of Luanda, namely in the municipality of Cazenga and Cacuaco, advanced Franco Mufinda.

The covid-19 pandemic has already caused at least 843 thousand deaths and infected more than 25 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to a balance sheet made 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.

After Europe succeeded China as the center of the pandemic in February, the American continent is now the one with the most confirmed cases and the most deaths.

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