Mozambican Health Minister Armindo Tiago said yesterday that the country should prepare for “the worst-case scenario” of a third wave of covid-19 for better prevention. “We want to be ready for the worst scenario, as only in this way will we be able to shield our society from the impacts of the pandemic”, he said at the opening of a scientific conference on covid-19, in Maputo. A readiness that “should not be built on panic” but with “realism and informed by scientific evidence”, he added. “In our region, countries like South Africa, Namibia and Zambia are already suffering the effects of the third wave. In Namibia and Zambia, this third wave is of a higher intensity than the first two”, detailed Armindo Tiago. For the governor, the pandemic “is still far from over”. “The relative success we have had so far in controlling covid-19 should not serve to feed the illusion that we have won the pandemic” and “early relaxation can have dramatic consequences, as illustrated by the tragic situation in some countries from South America and Asia”. At the opening of the conference, he highlighted that the scientific evidence “indicates that the correct implementation of prevention measures will continue to be the most effective tool in the response against covid-19 during the coming months “. Mozambique has a cumulative total of 844 deaths and 71,764 covid-19 cases, 97 percent of which are recovered and 32 hospitalized. May was the month with the lowest number of covid-19 cases and deaths in Mozambique since a peak of 274 deaths and more than 20,000 infections in February. Although official figures have helped the country enter a new phase of easing restrictions, health authorities have called for respect for prevention measures in the face of fears of a third wave of infections by the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. (Lusa) Source: Carta de Moçambique
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