Of the 181 cases, 105 males and 76 females, aged between 1 year and 82 years, 92 are from the province of Luanda, the provinces of Benguela and Zaire had 29 each, 15 were registered in Namibe, six in Huila, five in Moxico, Bié and Huambo with two each and one in Malanje.
Twelve deaths were reported, six male and six female, aged between 52 and 81 years, with comorbidities of hypertension, diabetes mellitus and bronchial asthma.
Another 48 patients recovered, ranging in age from 6 months to 69 years.
A cumulative total of 48,656 cases have been recorded to date in Angola, of which 3521 are active, 1270 have died, and 43,865 have recovered.
Of the 3521 active cases, 12 are in critical condition and 29 are severe, 126 moderate, 46 mild and 3308 asymptomatic.
In the last 24 hours, 832 samples were processed by RT-PCR, and the cumulative number of samples processed is 924,815, which corresponds to a positivity rate of 5.3 percent.
Covid-19 has caused at least 4,560,565 deaths worldwide, out of more than 220.27 million infections by the new coronavirus recorded since the start of the pandemic, according to the most recent assessment by Agence France-Presse.
In Portugal, since March 2020, 17,798 people have died and 1,047,047 confirmed cases of infection have been counted, according to data from the Directorate General of Health.
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.
