According to the epidemiological bulletin of the National Health Directorate, in the period in reference the new cases were registered in the provinces of Luanda (27), Moxico (23), Cunene (17), Huila (11), Lunda Sul (8), Benguela (5), Zaire (5), Huambo (3) and Namibe (1), with ages between three and 89 years, being 57 males and 43 females.
The deaths, three males and one female, aged between 50 and 68 years, were recorded two in Lunda Sul, one in Luanda, and one in Namibe.
As for the recoveries, the data indicate that of the 1029 people who were recovered, aged between one and 82 years, 943 were in Luanda, 43 in Cunene, 13 in Benguela, 12 in Zaire, nine in Huambo, four in Huila, two in Bengo, one in Cabinda, one in Lunda Sul and the same number in Namibe.
With the data from the last 24 hours, the country now totals 43,020 positive cases, 1022 deaths, 39,389 recovered and 2609 active, of which seven in critical condition, 14 severe, 89 moderate, 39 mild and 2460 asymptomatic, with 149 patients hospitalized, 809 contacts under epidemiological surveillance and 161 people in institutional quarantine.
The laboratories processed 2373 samples by RT-PCR in the period under review, making a cumulative of 818,949 samples processed to date, with a positivity rate of 5.3 percent.
At entry and exit points in Luanda, the only region of the country under sanitary fence since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, 354 people were tested on an antigen test basis.
The covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 4,234,618 deaths worldwide, among more than 198.8 million cases of infection with the new coronavirus, according to the most recent assessment by the France-Presse agency.
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.
