Maputo — Mozambique's National Director of Public Health, Rosa Marlene, announced in Maputo on Thursday that, with the diagnosis of a further six cases of the coronavirus that causes the respiratory disease Covid-19, the number of confirmed cases in Mozambique has risen from 156 to 162.

Speaking at the Health Ministry's daily press conference on the Covid-19 crisis, Marlene said that, to date, 7,063 suspect cases have been tested, 294 of them in the previous 24 hours.

90 of the samples tested came from Maputo City, 73 from Maputo province, 34 from Cabo Delgado, 31 from Gaza, 27 from Sofala, 25 from Niassa, 11 from Tete, and three from Inhambane.

The distribution of the 162 confirmed cases, by province, is as follows: Cabo Delgado, 88; Maputo City, 40; Maputo province, 20; Sofala, eight; Tete, two; Inhambane, two; Manica, one; Gaza, one.

Of the positive cases, 126 are men and 36 are women.