CMRE has published Situation épidémiologique du 13 octobre 2019, with data for October 12. Excerpt from the Google translation:
EVOLUTION OF THE EPIDEMIC IN THE PROVINCES OF NORTH KIVU AND ITURI AS AT OCTOBER 12, 2019
Sunday, October 13, 2019
Since the beginning of the epidemic, the cumulative number of cases is 3,218, of which 3,104 confirmed and 114 probable. In total, there were 2,150 deaths (2036 confirmed and 114 probable) and 1032 people healed.
• 429 suspected cases under investigation;
• 6 new confirmed cases to CTEs, including;
º 4 in North Kivu, including 2 in Beni and 2 in Kalunguta
º 2 in Ituri, including 1 in Mandima and 1 in Nyakunde;
• 2 new confirmed deaths, including:
º 1 community death in North Kivu in Kalunguta;
º 1 new confirmed death in CTE in North Kivu in Beni;
• 1 person healed out of CTE in Ituri in Mambasa;
• No health workers are among the newly confirmed cases. The cumulative number of confirmed / probable cases among health workers is 161 (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
New health area infected with Ebola virus in Ituri
- A new Health Area has been affected by Ebola Virus Disease in Ituri. This is the Maroro Health Area in the Nyakunde Health Zone;
- Indeed, Nyakunde was already at 294 days without notifying a new confirmed case of EVD and returned to zero following this new affection;
- Of all the 6 cases reported this Sunday, October 13, 2019, none of them were listed as contact, nor monitored regularly or vaccinated;
- It is also reported that the alerts of all these cases are coming back from the community and their contacts are being listed, the investigations are continuing, the decontamination of the patients' households is being carried out and the ring of vaccination has been opened around all these cases.
VACCINATION
- Since the beginning of vaccination on August 8, 2018, 237,632 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 total number of travelers checked (temperature rise) at the sanitary control points is 105,518,454;
- 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.
