According to the epidemiological bulletin of the National Directorate of Public Health, the 10 deaths, between 17 and 95 years old, were registered in the provinces of Bié (four), Cunene (three), Huíla (two) and one in Luanda.
The province of Luanda led the registration of new cases with 115, followed by the provinces of Huambo, with 23, Huila with 22, Bié with eight, Benguela and Cuando-Cubango with six cases each, Moxico with five, Cunene and Zaire with four cases each and Kwanza Norte and Lunda Sul with three cases.
In 24 hours, the laboratories processed 3352 samples by RT-PCR. The cumulative total is 889,810 samples processed with a positivity rate of 5.2 percent.
Angola now totals 46,539 positive cases, of which 1176 have died, 2531 are active, and 42,832 are considered recovered from the disease.
Covid-19 has caused at least 4,451,888 deaths worldwide, among more than 213.1 million infections by the new coronavirus recorded since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the latest balance sheet from the agency 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 United Kingdom, India, South Africa, Brazil or Peru.
