Via email, the Technical Secretariat has published the August 14 update, with numbers up to August 13:
MULTISECTORAL NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RESPONSE TO EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE
TECHNICAL SECRETARIAT
SUBJECT: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SITUATION IN THE PROVINCES OF NORTH KIVU AND ITURI AT AUGUST 13, 2019.
Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Since the beginning of the epidemic, the cumulative number of cases is 2,842, 2,748 confirmed and 94 probable. In total, there were 1,905 deaths (1,811 confirmed and 94 probable) and 844 people healed.
• 380 suspected cases under investigation;
• 5 new confirmed cases, including 4 in North Kivu, including 2 in Beni, 1 in Butembo, 1 in Kalunguta and 1 in Ituri in Komanda;
• 7 new confirmed deaths, including 5 in North Kivu and 2 in Ituri:
º 2 community deaths, including 1 in North Kivu in Kalunguta and 1 in Ituri in Komanda;
º 4 deaths in CTEs, including 3 in North Kivu, including 1 in Butembo, 1 in Katwa and 1 in Mabalako and 1 in Ituri in Komanda;
º 1 death in the CT in North Kivu in Beni;
• 9 people healed from ETCs in North Kivu, including 4 in Katwa, 3 in Beni and 2 in Goma;
• No health worker is among the new confirmed cases. The cumulative number of confirmed / probable cases among health workers is 152 (5% of all confirmed / probable cases), including 41 deaths.
/!\ The data presented in this table are subject to change after extensive investigation and after redistribution of cases and deaths in their respective health areas.
*News*
Cross-border meeting between Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, South Sudan and the DRC_ held in Goma
• The World Health Organization (WHO) is organizing a trans-boundary meeting between Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, South Sudan and the DRC from 14 to 15 August 2019 in Goma, North Kivu Province. This meeting is part of the reinforcement of collaboration between the different countries in order to put an end to the Ebola virus epidemic that has been raging since 1 August 2018 in the DRC, precisely in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri;
• Indeed, the cross-border meeting between these different countries
• follows the decision of WHO to place this 10th epidemic as a health emergency of international concern;
• Several stakeholders took part in this meeting, including the North Kivu Provincial Minister of Health, the Secretary General for Health, the representatives of the Technical Secretariat of the Multisectoral Committee for the Ebola Virus Disease Response (CMRE), including Prof. Stève Ahuka, members of the response coordination, representatives of WHO, IOM, CDC Atlanta and Africa, UNICEF and Ocha.
A dignified and safe burial team threatened in Nyiragongo
• A dignified and secure burial team (EDS) was threatened by stone throwing at the HERI clinic in the Ngangi 3 health area in the Nyirangongo Health Zone. The perpetrators of this incivic act are, in particular some members of the community not yet identified,
• Another DHS team was assaulted by Mai Mai in the Kalunguta Health Zone at the Kivetya Health Zone. The balance is three stolen phones. This behavior justifies the failure of the DHS of a positive body, manipulated and buried by the family in this country.
Vaccination
• Since vaccination began on August 8, 2018, 193,246 people have been vaccinated.
• The only vaccine to be used in this outbreak is the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine, manufactured by the pharmaceutical group Merck, following approval by the Ethics Committee in its decision of 20 May 2018.
Surveillance at points of entry
• Disruption of activities at the KANGOTE checkpoint (PoC) in BUTEMBO Following a rumor that the Mai-Mai were around the PoC.
