Extreme poverty and orphanhood are pointed out as one of the main causes of the increase in cases of illegal migration and trafficking in minors on the borders between Mozambique and South Africa. According to the data presented by the coordinator of the national reference group for child protection, combating human trafficking and illegal migration, it points to...
Mozambique recorded 25 deaths from cholera and 8,878 cases of the disease in the period from October 1 to January 8, the Ministry of Health (MISAU) announced. The MISAU's daily bulletin on the general situation in the country regarding cholera cases states that the lethality rate is 0.3%. O...
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that 3.4 million new covid-19 infections have been reported in the last 24 hours, with some stability in the curve of deaths derived from the disease. The new infections are led by the omicron variant and the total number of deaths attributed to covid-19 worldwide is 7,700, about...
The African Union Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) announced today in Addis Ababa that five percent more new cases of covid-19 were recorded in just one week in Africa, bringing the number to 9.8 million. "In the week of December 27 to January 2, compared...
World Health Organization (WHO) issued a report indicating that in the past week the world's genomic laboratories detected about 140,000 more new cases of covid-19 than in the previous week. The percentage of the omicron variant rose from 0.1% to 1.6% in just seven days, according to the study conducted by GISAID, which works with the...
The Minister of Health, Armindo Tiago, announced on Monday in Maputo that Mozambique already has 17 cases of infection by omicron variant. He was speaking on the sidelines of the launch of the "vaccine caravan". This number of cases includes the two 'first' cases - one with mild symptoms and the other with none - which raised suspicions...
The African Union Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) announced Wednesday that the number of covid-19 infections in Africa rose 88%, to 98,000 new cases, during the past week. Of the total cases, for the week of November 29 to December 5, 79% originated in...
The repatriation flight that took mostly Portuguese and Mozambican citizens from Maputo to Lisbon, last Saturday (4), had on board three cases of covid-19, related to the new variant Ómicron. Source from the National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA), informed about covid-19 infections, this Monday, and hours later it was confirmed that it was...
Cases of covid-19 infection are tending to increase to worrying levels around the world, as has been reported in recent days. Fact is, this coincides not only with the lifting of restrictions, which by far may be the main reason, but also with the announcement of the discovery of the omicron variant, of...
The Minister of Health, Armindo Tiago, announced on Tuesday that Mozambique has detected new covid-19 infections, two of which may be of the omicron variant. The detection of these two suspected cases was possible following the archive testing of positive samples from the month of November. The official further explained that there is a probability that the...