Luanda – The Angolan health authorities announced this Saturday 515 new cases of Covid-19, as well as 16 deaths and the recovery of 19 patients in the last 24 hours.
According to the new update, 365 of the new cases were diagnosed in Luanda, 50 in Uige, 23 in Cuanza Sul, 18 in Benguela, 16 in Zaire, 7 in Cabinda, 5 in Cuanza Norte, 5 in Huila, 2 in Bengo, 2 in Malanje, 2 in Moxico, 1 in Cuando Cubango and 1 in Cunene.
The ages of the new patients vary from 1 month to 89 years, of whom 264 are females and 251 males.
The deaths were recorded in Luanda (8), Benguela (3), Huambo (3), Huila (1) and Malanje (1).
Of the recovered cases, 12 reside in Huila, 3 in Luanda, 3 in Huambo and 1 in Moxico Province.
The laboratories processed, in the last 24 hours, 4,013 samples.
There are 352 in-patients in treatment centres, whereas in institutional quarantine there are 125 citizens, while 3,132 citizens are under epidemiological surveillance.
With this update, Angola now has a total of 54,795 positive cases of the newcoronavirus recorded, which resulted in 1,487 deaths, 47,194 recoveries and 6,114 active cases.
Of the active cases (diseased), 33 are critical, 50 serious, 175 moderate, 94 mild and 5,762 asymptomatic.
Source: Angola Press News Agency