By: Ivanine Silva
The covid-19 pandemic, a disease whose first cases in Angola were registered at the end of March, in Luanda, a province that has 96 percent of the total confirmed cases to date, has also reached 13 other provinces in the country.
According to the Secretary of State for Public Health, Franco Mufinda, cases have been recorded so far in Luanda, Bengo, Benguela, Bié, Cabinda, Cuanza-Norte, Cuanza-Sul, Cunene, Huíla, Malanje, Moxico, Lunda -North, Uíge and Zaire, totaling 14 provinces.
Luanda, the province with the most registered cases and which is in the condition of community contagion, recorded 1700 cases of the disease, followed by Cuanza-Norte, where 18 cases were registered, which constitutes 1 percent, the province is in the condition of local contagion, Zaire, is the third most affected province with 14 registered cases, which constitutes 0.79 percent of cases, it is also in the local contagion phase.
The province of Cabinda, registered nine cases, is in the local contagion phase. Bengo and Cuanza-Sul, with five cases, Cunene, with three cases, Benguela, with two cases, and the provinces of Bié, Malanje, Uíge, Huíla, Moxico and Lunda-Norte, all with one case, registered only imported cases.
Of the country’s 18 provinces, only four did not report cases of the disease, they are: Cuando Cubango, Huambo, Lunda-Sul and Namibe.
The country has so far recorded 1,762 positive cases of Covid-19, 577 recovered and 80 deaths.