Two Angolan men, 53 and 86 years old, died, while seven people recovered in the last 24 hours.
According to the health official, 15 of the newly infected are from Bié, 56 from Huíla, and 124 from Luanda, aged between 4 and 92, 89 males and 106 females.
Angola currently has 5725 cases, of which 201 have died, 2598 have recovered, and 2926 are active, of which 16 are in a critical condition and another 16 are in a serious condition.
The laboratories have processed 1597 samples, in an accumulation of 103,851 tests.
Franco Mufinda also announced the results of the tests made to the teaching class. Of the 2844 general education teachers tested by RT PCR, 85 tested positive, a rate of 2.9 percent, while among the 650 university teachers tested, 12 were positive, a rate of 1.8 percent.
"The two groups studied have a positivity rate below the Angolan average, which is 6.1 percent," stressed the Health Officer.
This Wednesday will be the random testing of students, previously announced for Tuesday. One thousand students will be tested, divided by 10 schools in Luanda.
The covid-19 pandemic has already caused more than one million forty-five thousand deaths and more than 35.5 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a balance made by the French agency AFP.
In Africa, there are 36,921 confirmed deaths in more than 1.5 million infected in 55 countries, according to the most recent pandemic statistics on the continent.
Among the African countries that have Portuguese as their official language, Angola leads in number of deaths and Mozambique in number of cases. Angola has 201 deaths and 5725 cases, followed by Equatorial Guinea (83 deaths and 5052 cases), Mozambique (67 deaths and 9398 cases), Cape Verde (69 deaths and 6518 cases), Guinea-Bissau (39 deaths and 2.85 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (15 deaths and 914 cases).
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected at the end of December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
