According to Franco Mufinda, the new cases were registered in Luanda (67), Cunene (15), Benguela (04), Huíla (01), Bengo (01) and Namibe (07), a province that until now remained the only one without diagnosed infections.
The new cases are between 7 and 69 years old, being 64 males and 31 females.
Besides the deaths, two Angolans, 51 and 69 years old, were considered recovered 20 patients.
In total, the country accumulates 5958 cases, of which 208 deaths, 2635 recovered and 3115 active, among which 19 in critical condition and 17 severe.
A total of 2314 samples were processed in an accumulation of 108,885 tests.
Franco Mufinda announced the arrival in the country of a team of Chinese health professionals composed of doctors, including traditional medicine, epidemiologists and nurses who dealt with the epidemic for the first time in Wuhan.
"The aim is to exchange experiences in the clinical, epidemiological, public health and traditional medicine components of the covid-19 approach," he stressed.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
In Africa, there are 37,387 confirmed deaths in more than 1.5 million people infected in 55 countries, according to the latest 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 registers 208 deaths and 5958 cases, followed by Equatorial Guinea (83 deaths and 5062 cases), Mozambique (68 deaths and 9639 cases), Cape Verde (71 deaths and 6624 cases), Guinea-Bissau (39 deaths and 2385 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (15 deaths and 914 cases).
The covid-19 pandemic has already caused more than one million fifty-seven thousand deaths worldwide since December of last year, including 2050 in Portugal, and more than 36.2 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a balance sheet made by the French agency AFP.
