Maputo — Health staff have diagnosed dozens of cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease in the northern Mozambican province of Nampula, so that Nampula is now the province with the second largest number of cases.
As for the other new cases, three are women from Maputo city, two are men from Maputo province, and one is a man from Palma district in Cabo Delgado.
This is not simply because Nampula is the most populous province in the country, but because it has the highest rate of positive cases (that is, the number of positive cases expressed as a percentage of the number of people tested).
Asked if there is any relationship between the Nampula cases and those in the neighbouring province of Cabo Delgado, Samo Gudo said it was too early to draw any conclusions, and more research is needed.
A breakdown of known cases up until Tuesday by province gives the following results: Cabo Delgado, 146; Nampula, 61; Maputo City, 52; Maputo Province, 22; Sofala, 12; Tete, four; Inhambane, three; Gaza, three; Zambezia, two; Manica, one; Niassa, one.
