Mozambique: Covid-19 – No Reason for Alarm, Says Minister

Maputo — Mozambican Health Minister Armindo Tiago on Friday said that the recent rise in the number of new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease is no cause for alarm.

Speaking in the southern municipality of Boane where he was launching an initiative to improve medical care for military veterans, Tiago said the number of daily new cases recorded “is still minimal”.

For the past few weeks, new cases have been running at fewer than ten a day, but on Thursday 19 new cases were reported, and on…