Mozambique President, FILIPE NYUSI has prolonged the state of emergency ordered on April 1 to try to slow the spread of corona virus infections by a month.

Under the state of emergency, movement of people within the country is restricted, schools are shut and no foreigners are allowed into the country.

Infections in the southern African country have now risen to 76, of which more than three-quarters originated from a project site in northern Mozambique.