President and his wife test positive for covid

By Our Reporter,

MAPUTO:

Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi and his wife Isaura have tested positive for Covid-19 and are isolating, the president’s office said on Monday.

Nyusi and his wife took rapid tests and were asymptomatic but immediately decided to isolate while awaiting their PCR results, the presidency statement said.

Mozambique’s coronavirus infections are at their peak, data from a Reuters tracker show, with the average number of new cases increasing for seven days in a row.

The country has so far recorded more than 193,000 Covid-19 cases, 2,031 deaths and 158,680 recoveries.