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Tuesday, 29 December 2020

COVID-19: ANGOLA WITH 17,240 INFECTIONS

 Ninety-one (91) new positive cases of Covid-19 were reported in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of infected people in Angola to 17, 240, health authorities have said.

Secretário de Estado para a Saúde Pública, Franco Mufinda

The health officials also announced 278 recoveries in the last 24 hours.

Updating covid-19 statistics, the Secretary of State for Public Health, Franco Mufinda, also announced 6, 587 active patients, 10, 254 recoveries and 399 died, out of the total number of the cases registered in March-December 2020.

According to the official, of the total number of active, three patients are in critical condition, five serious, 70 moderate, 103 mild and 6, 406 asymptomatic.

Of the new cases recorded in the last 24 hours, he said that 44 are from the province of Lunda Sul, 19 in Lunda Norte, 16 in Luanda, four in Bié, four in Huambo, two in Cabinda, one in Moxico and one in Zaire, aged between three and 61 years old.

Of the total number of people recovered in that period, 238 are from Luanda and 40 from Namibe province. No death has been reported.

As for laboratory activity, 1,031 samples were processed by RT-PCR in the last 24 hours, resulting in 91 infected, representing a daily positivity rate of 8.8 percent.

The total of processed samples, since last March, is 303, 818, being 17, 240 positive, representing an accumulated positivity rate of 5.7 percent.

Currently, the treatment centers are monitoring 181 patients, while 4,223 contacts are under surveillance by health authorities.


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