COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique

The COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have reached Mozambique in March 2020.^[3]

COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique
Cases per Province[1]      Provinces with 30 to 299 cases reported by the National Institute of Health      Provinces with 3 to 29 cases reported by the National Institute of Health      Provinces with 1 or 2 cases reported by the National Institute of Health
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	Mozambique
First outbreak	Wuhan, China
Arrival date	22 March 2020 (5 years, 4 months, 1 week and 1 day)
Confirmed cases	816 (as of 26 June)[2]
Active cases	588 (as of 26 June)
Recovered	223 (as of 26 June)
Deaths	5 (as of 26 June)

On 8 April 2020, Mozambique registered seven new positive cases of COVID-19, increasing the total number of confirmed cases to 17, nine of which are local transmissions.^[4]

After ending June with 254 confirmed cases, the number of confirmed cases had doubled by 13 June, with a further 44 cases confirmed on that day alone.^[5]

The country recorded its third death on 14 June, an 84-year-old man from Nampula Province.^[6]