According to the Secretary of State for Public Health, Franco Mufinda, the new cases, aged between 5 months and 71 years, were registered in Luanda (31), Huambo (10), Lunda Norte (7), Benguela (6), Cabinda (3), Cuanza Sul (2), Zaire (1) and the same number in Bié and Moxico.
The deaths were reported in the provinces of Luanda and Benguela, with one man and one woman, aged 40 and 74, being victims.
The country thus totals 17,433 positive cases, 405 deaths and 10,859 recovered.
Franco Mufinda reported that in the last 24 hours 232 people were considered recovered, 206 in Luanda, eight in Lunda Sul, seven in Lunda Norte, six in Kwanza Sul, four in Bié and one in Huambo, whose ages range from 1 to 80 years.
The country now has 6169 active cases, three of which are in critical condition, seven severe, 71 moderate, 86 mild, and 6002 asymptomatic, with 166 patients in treatment centers.
In the last 24 hours, laboratories have been able to process 1646 samples, representing a daily positivity rate of 3.8 percent, while the cumulative figure points to 308,994 samples processed to date, of which 17,433 are positive, referring to a cumulative positivity rate of 5.6 percent.
At the entry and exit points of Luanda, under sanitary fence, the sanitary authorities managed to test 1078 people in the last 24 hours, 928 male and 150 female, and of this group 113 were reactive, giving an exposure rate of 10.5 per cent, however, the confirmatory testing did not register any positive cases.
This Wednesday's session to present the epidemiological situation began with a communication from the Minister of Health, Silvia Lutucuta, where she reiterated to the population to refrain from participating in end-of-year parties.
Silvia Lutucuta stressed that the measures adopted by the authorities aim at cutting the chain of transmission of covid-19, recalling that the country has already gone through "much worse times", referring to October and early November.
"We don't want to start the year with a second wave. We must do everything to avoid a second wave," said the minister.
The covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 1,791,033 deaths as a result of more than 81.9 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a balance sheet made by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected at the end of December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
