Comunicação - Imprensa
Mozambique: President extends state of emergency for another 30 days
President Filipe Nyusi today announced a 30-day extension of the state of emergency in Mozambique due to the Covid-19 pandemic , to avoid possible pressure on the country’s health system.
Despite the fact that no lockdown has so far been decreed, the Head of State urged all citizens to choose not to leave home except for essential reasons.
“In simple words I say: Let’s stay at home,” said the President, in an address to the nation broadcast by Televisão de Moçambique and Rádio Moçambique.
The state of emergency extension will last until May 30.
The country has been in a state of emergency since April 1 and so far registered a total of 76 Covid-19 cases, nine recoveries an no deaths.
Globally, according to a report by the AFP news agency, the Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 217,000 deaths and infected more than 3.1 million people in 193 countries and territories.
Nearly 860,000 patients have recovered.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
