According to the epidemiological bulletin of the health entity, Luanda reported the highest number of new cases, with 23, followed by the provinces of Cunene (two), Huíla (two) and Benguela and Moxico with one case each.
Laboratories in Angola processed 2199 samples by RT-PCR in that period with a daily positivity rate of 1.3 percent. The cumulative points to 1,119,673 processed samples with a positivity rate of 5.8 percent.
Angola now has 64,487 positive cases of the disease, of which 1713 deaths, 53,396 recovered from the disease and 9378 active, namely eight in critical condition, nine serious, 33 moderate, 31 mild and 9297 asymptomatic.
Covid-19 has caused at least 5,003,717 deaths worldwide, among more than 247.03 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.
