With this Tuesday's data, according to the Secretary of State for Public Health, Franco Mufinda, the country totals 17,371 cases, 403 deaths, 10,627 data as recovered and 6341 active, of which three in critical condition, six severe, 71 moderate, 91 mild and 6170 asymptomatic.
"Fortunately, we have not had any deaths in the last 24 hours and have managed to recover 306 people, 294 of them in Luanda and 12 in Lunda Norte," Franco Mufinda said, pointing out that 171 patients are being followed up at the treatment centers.
With regard to laboratory tests, the governor reported that 2864 samples were processed in the last 24 hours, 75 of which were positive, giving a daily positivity rate of 2.6 percent, while the cumulative figure points to 307,348 samples processed, of which 17,371 were positive, referring to a cumulative positivity rate of 5.7 percent.
In the last 24 hours, 668 people were tested at the entry and exit points of the Luanda province health fence, 549 men and 119 women, 58 of whom were reactive, giving an exposure rate of 8.7 percent.
The Secretary of State for Public Health also reported that, in view of the current situation of the pandemic, the multisectoral commission to combat covid-19 prohibited the traditional launching of fireworks, dance and music shows and 'New Year's Eve'.
"We don't want to create environments conducive to the contamination of SARS-CoV-2," said Franco Mufinda, calling on families "to make another sacrifice, especially with the unfortunate appearance of the new variant" near South Africa.
The covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 1,775,272 deaths as a result of more than 81.5 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Africa, there are 63,344 confirmed deaths and more than 2.6 million infected in 55 countries, according to the most recent statistics about the pandemic in the continent.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected at the end of December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
