The CMRE has emailed its daily update for September 2, with data for September 1. Excerpt from the Google translation:
SUBJECT: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SITUATION IN THE PROVINCES OF NORTH KIVU AND ITURI AS AT SEPTEMBER 01, 2019.
Date: Monday, 02 September 2019
Since the beginning of the epidemic, the cumulative number of cases is 3,036, of which 2,931 confirmed and 105 probable. In total, there were 2,035 deaths (1,930 confirmed and 105 probable) and 902 people healed.
• 321 suspected cases under investigation;
• 5 new confirmed cases, including:
º 1 in North Kivu in Kalunguta;
º 4 in Ituri, including 2 in Mambasa and 2 in Mandima.
• 4 new confirmed deaths, including 3 in North Kivu and 1 in Ituri:
º No community deaths were recorded as of 1 September 2019;
º 4 deaths in CTEs, including 3 in North Kivu, including 2 in Beni and 1 in Butembo, and 1 in Ituri in Komandai.
• 6 people cured out of ETCs in North Kivu, including 4 in Mabalako and 2 in Beni;
• No health workers are among the newly confirmed cases. The cumulative number of confirmed / probable cases among health workers is 156 (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
Delivery of personal protective equipment for the response to Ebola Virus Disease in the DRC
• The Japanese government has just provided the Democratic Republic of Congo with eight thousand personal protective equipment (PPE) for the response to the Ebola virus disease;
• This handover, which took place Monday, September 02, 2019 at the National Institute of Biomedical Research (INRB), is part of the bilateral cooperation between the DRC and Japan to quickly end the the Ebola Virus Disease epidemic in the country since 1 August 2018 in the provinces of North and South Kivu and in Ituri;
• "This technical support is very important for the protection of the population and our actors in the field, including doctors, nurses and all those working in the response who are at enormous risk of contagion. It is also a major aid in the Ebola response to fight this deadly epidemic," said the special adviser to the Head of State in charge of Universal Health Coverage (CMU), Dr. Roger Kamba;• According to Dr. Kamba, the 10th Ebola Virus Disease outbreak is an opportunity for the true friends of the DRC to show their solidarity. To this end, the country of the rising sun has anticipated by repeatedly showing its availability to come to the aid of the Congo;
• Dr. Roger Kamba thanked Japan, on behalf of the Head of State, President Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo and all Congolese, for this gesture and its presence in the cooperation between the two countries. He recalled that Japan has honored the National Institute of Biochemical Research (INRB) by awarding a prize to Prof. Jean-Jacques Muyembe Ntafum for his scientific research work on Ebola Virus Disease;
• This donation is a grant from the Japanese government, through its International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to once again assist the DRC in the response to the Ebola Virus Disease, said the Ambassador of Japan in the DRC, Mr. Hiroshi Karube;
• The Ambassador of Japan recalled that the strengthening of the health system is one of the main pillars of Japan's assistance policy in the DRC, while reaffirming his country's commitment to support the DRC in the field of health. health;
• For the JICA country representative in the DRC, Shibata Kazunao, this donation is made up of the protective equipment that can enable teams to respond to Ebola Virus Disease to do their job well, especially at the entry points, epidemiological and laboratory surveillance;
• Since the beginning of this 10th Ebola Virus Disease epidemic in the DRC, Japan has been following its evolution and working in close collaboration with the Technical Secretary of the Multisectoral Committee for the Response to Ebola Virus Disease. Jean-Jacques Muyembe and regularly made available to the Ministry of Health, through the INRB, Japanese experts;
• The ceremony was attended by the Deputy Technical Secretary of the Multisectoral Ebola Response Committee, Prof Benoît Kebela and one of the experts in this technical secretariat, Prof. Stève Ahuka.
VACCINATION
• Since vaccination began on August 8, 2018, 210,761 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.
MONITORING AT ENTRY POINTS
• Since the beginning of the epidemic, the cumulative number of travelers checked (temperature rise) at the sanitary control points 90.906.064;
• To date, a total of 98 entry points (PoE) and sanitary control points (PoCs) have been set up in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri to protect the country's major cities and prevent the spread of the epidemic in neighboring countries.
