COVID-19: ANGOLA RECORDS 24 NEW CASES, 17 RECOVERED AND 3 DEATHS

Luanda - Twenty-four new cases, 17 recovered patients and 3 deaths are the balance of the last 24 hours announced, this Monday, by the health authorities.

According to the Secretary of State for Public Health, Franco Mufinda, who was updating the data, these are 11 cases diagnosed in Luanda, 8 in Huíla, 4 in Namibe and 1 in Malanje.

The new patients, including 17 males and 7 females, are aged 2 to 54 years.

Like the deaths, the recovered patients also reside in the province of Luanda.

The national statistics points to 21,757 post-mortem cases, with 530 deaths, 20,090 recovered and 1,137 active.

According to Franco Mufinda, the country has a mortality rate of 2.4 percent and a recovery rate of 92.3 percent.

In detention centers are 93 people, in institutional quarantine are 111 people.

The authorities have under medical supervision 1,563 contacts of positive cases.

Medical teams processed 479 samples, with a daily positivity rate of .5.1 percent.