Mozambique will extend the state of emergency for another 30 days after registering its second deceased. Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi announced the move on the same day the African country registered its second fatality from covid-19. "This pandemic requires our spirit of sacrifice, resilience and determination" as well as "compliance with preventive measures, which will be decisive for success in this fight against this faceless enemy," he said, according to Radio Mozambique. The country registered its second fatality on Thursday from the pandemic, a woman who died in the city of Pemba, in the north of the country. In addition, on the last day it added another six infections, so there are already 233 confirmed cases.
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This Friday Africa exceeds 130,000 confirmed cases, a total of 133,196 and 3,871 dead and 55,645 recovered. By country, the most affected are South Africa (27,403), Egypt (20,793), Algeria (9,134) and Nigeria (8,915). For the third consecutive day, Egypt records a peak of cases, this Friday up to 1,000 cases. The Government of Egypt, the country with the most deaths from coronavirus on the continent (845), detailed that it had confirmed another 910 cases of coronavirus on Wednesday and has thus confirmed the upward trend in recent weeks, which has led the authorities to weigh the application of confinement in the face of the pandemic, despite the fact that until now they had tried to avoid this measure.
Countries like Ethiopia also strengthen their measures against the virus. The country's authorities announced new measures late Wednesday, including the mandatory use of masks outside the home, in response to an increase in the number of cases. The Attorney General's Office has confirmed that the use of masks is mandatory, while it has revealed that work in public institutions in the capital, Addis Ababa, has been modified to avoid saturation of public transport. South Africa has hosted the most comprehensive study of how the virus spreads in a hospital. Three Durban researchers have produced the most comprehensive report to understand what mechanisms the coronavirus follows to pass from patient to patient. French President Emmanuel Macron has called for more solidarity with Africa at a virtual summit organized by the United Nations to discuss financing for development policies in the face of the pandemic. "We have never needed collective action and cooperation so much," he said in a video message. The president pointed out that for his government there are three great priorities that have as their axis fighting inequality: guaranteeing health for all, supporting the most vulnerable countries and that the way out of the crisis puts the fight against climate change and the protection of the environment in the center.
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