According to the epidemiological bulletin of the National Directorate of Public Health, of the 242 new infections, of which 131 are male and 111 female, aged between one month and 86 years, the highest number was registered in Luanda province, with 131 cases positive.
The deaths, one male and two female, aged between 49 and 59 years, occurred in the provinces of Luanda, Huambo and Namibe, with arterial hypertension as the most frequent comorbidity.
The recoveries took place in Huambo (47), Luanda (34), Huíla (21), Cabinda (9) and Cuando Cubango (1), with ages ranging from one to 86 years.
With data from the last 24 hours, the country records a cumulative of 62,385 confirmed cases, 1653 deaths, 50,303 recovered and 10,429 active, of which 16 in critical condition, 40 serious, 111 moderate, 60 mild and 10,202 asymptomatic.
In the last 24 hours, 2400 samples were processed by RT-PCR, with a positivity rate of 8.1 percent, with the cumulative number of processed samples being 1,061,824 samples, representing a cumulative positivity rate of 5.9 percent.
Covid-19 has caused at least 4,870,405 deaths worldwide, among more than 239 million infections by the new coronavirus registered since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the most recent report by the Agence France-Presse.
The respiratory disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, detected at the end of 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China, and currently with variants identified in several countries.
