CMRE has emailed its September 25 update. Excerpt from the Google translation:
Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Since the beginning of the epidemic, the cumulative number of cases is 3,175, of which 3,063 confirmed and 112 probable. In total, there were 2,122 deaths (2010 confirmed and 112 probable) and 980 people healed.
• 523 suspected cases under investigation;
• 4 new confirmed cases, including:
• 1 in North Kivu in Kalunguta;
• 3 in Ituri, including 2 Komanda and 1 in Mambasa;
• 2 new confirmed deaths, including;
• 2 community deaths in Ituri, including 1 in Komanda and 1 in Mambasa;
• No deaths occurred among confirmed cases managed in ETCs;
• 1 person cured out of CTE in North Kivu in Beni;
• No health worker is among the new confirmed cases. The cumulative number of confirmed / probable cases among health workers is 160 (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.
VACCINATION
• Expanded ring vaccination continued around 2 confirmed cases in the Mataba Health Area in Kalunguta, North Kivu after reluctance was raised by communication around two cases;
• Three Beni vaccination teams were deployed to Mambasa, Ituri, to begin vaccination in a geographical ring in Binase and Madidi Health Areas;
• Training of Good Clinical Practice Trainers and Immunization Procedure for the 2nd Ebola Vaccine Jonshon & Jonshon continues in Goma;
• Since the start of vaccination on August 8, 2018, 227,961 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• A monitoring provider at the Chai Checkpoint (PoC) in Ituri was arrested by a FARDC (General) military officer. Indeed, this officer had refused to submit to the sanitary control of the PoC. This provider was released later in the day;
• PoC Komba in Butembo, North Kivu is the second day of inactivity. This is due to the persistence of insecurity following the incursion of the armed incivists to the Malende village not far from the PoC;
• Since the beginning of the epidemic, the total number of travelers checked (temperature measurement) at the sanitary control points is 98,817,987;
• To date, a total of 111 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.
