Mozambique's COVID-19 cases rise to 733

Mozambique's coronavirus (COVID-19) toll has risen yo a total of 733 as of Sunday night, according to Worldometers.

This comes after the country recorded at least 45 new COVID-19 infections, MyNigeria.com reports.

Meanwhile, the Mozambican health authorities on Saturday announced at least 20 new cases of the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) which took the total number of cases diagnosed in the African country since the start of the pandemic to at least 688.

Speaking at the Ministry of Health's daily press conference on the Covid-19 situation, the National Director of Public Health, Rosa Marlene, said that to date 23,104 people have been tested for the coronavirus, 841 of them in the previous 24 hours.

The health ministry revealed that of the 20 new cases, 19 are Mozambicans and one is a Portuguese citizen. All show only mild symptoms of Covid-19.

As for Mozambicans returning from abroad, particularly from South Africa, the director of surveys of the National Health Institute (INS), Sergio Chicumbe, told the press conference that everything is done to ensure that they remain in quarantine for the required 14 days.

"Conditions are created for them to remain in quarantine", he said. Where this cannot be done at wherever they entered the country, they are sent on to their destinations, where they should also obey the quarantine rule.

"In the great majority of cases, the health authorities accompany this process", Chicumbe added.