Of the new cases, 122 were registered in the province of Luanda, 19 in Huambo, 13 in Bié, 11 in Lunda Sul, 5 in Benguela, 5 in Moxico, 4 in Lunda Norte, 2 in Cunene, and 1 each in Bengo, Cabinda and Cuando Cubango, aged between 1 month and 84 years, 101 being males and 83 females, according to a document signed by the Secretary of State for Public Health, Franco Mufinda.
According to the health authorities six deaths were registered, three of them in Huila, and one each in Cuando Cubango, Luanda and Lunda Sul, between the ages of 10 months and 61 years, being four males and two females.
In the same period 184 people were also considered recovered from the disease, of which 70 in Luanda, 26 in Moxico, 21 in Namibe, 11 in Cunene, six in Benguela, five in Lunda Sul, five in Huila and one each in the provinces of Bié, Cuando Cubango, Cuanza Norte and Huambo.
Those recovered are aged between 2 and 89.
Angola now totals 46,723 cases since the pandemic began, including 1182 deaths and 42,980 people recovered from the disease, with 2,561 cases still active.
Among the active cases, four are in critical condition and 23 are in serious condition.
Laboratories processed 4179 samples in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 897,341 samples, with a cumulative positivity rate of 5.2 percent.
According to the most recent data from the African Union Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the continent has counted more than 7.62 million cases since the pandemic began, including more than 191,800 deaths.
Covid-19 has caused at least 4,461,431 deaths worldwide, among more than 213.79 million infections by the new coronavirus recorded since the pandemic began, 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 United Kingdom, India, South Africa, Brazil or Peru.
