CMRE has published Situation épidémiologique Ebola du 09 Octobre 2019. Excerpt from the Google translation:
EVOLUTION OF THE EPIDEMIC IN THE PROVINCES OF NORTH KIVU AND ITURI ON 08 OCTOBER 2019
Wednesday, October 09, 2019
Since the beginning of the epidemic, the cumulative number of cases is 3,207, of which 3,093 are confirmed and 114 are probable. In total, there were 2,144 deaths (2030 confirmed and 114 probable) and 1009 people healed.
• 455 suspected cases under investigation;
• 1 new case confirmed at CTE in Ituri in Mandima;
• 1 new confirmed death in North Kivu in Beni;
• 3 people healed from the CTE in North Kivu in Mabalako;
• 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
NOTHING TO REPORT
VACCINATION
- A vaccination ring was opened around the confirmed case of 06 October 2019 in the Oicha health zone in Tenambo, North Kivu;
- Continuation of vaccination around the last case of 04 October 2019 in Andindulu village in the Lolwa health zone in Ituri;
- Continuation of the vaccination of newly recruited front-line staff in the Reference Hospitals of Katwa and Kyondo Health Zones;
- Continuation of the Local Polio Immunization Days integrated into Vitamin A supplementation and Mebendazole deworming in 17 health zones of the Butembo antenna.
- Since vaccination began on August 8, 2018, 236,010 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 is 103,989,097;
- 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.
