CMRE has published Situation épidémiologique du 29 novembre 2019. Excerpt from the Google translation:
EVOLUTION OF THE EPIDEMIC IN THE PROVINCES OF NORTH KIVU AND ITURI AT NOVEMBER 28, 2019
Friday, November 29, 2019
• Since the beginning of the epidemic, the cumulative number of cases is 3,309, of which 3,191 are confirmed and 118 are probable. In total, there were 2,201 deaths (2,083 confirmed and 118 probable) and 1077 people healed.
• 335 suspected cases under investigation;
• No new confirmed cases;
• No new deaths among confirmed cases;
• No cured person has emerged from CTEs;
• No health worker is among the new confirmed cases. The cumulative number of confirmed / probable cases among health workers is 163 (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
Organization of a press conference on the situation and evolution of the Ebola Virus Disease in Beni
• The Beni Ebola Sub-Coordination of Beni in North Kivu organized a press conference on Ebola Virus Disease on Friday, November 28, 2019;
• This press conference was moderated by the acting coordinator of this sub-coordination, Dr. Tosalisana Michel, who confirmed that the activities of the response continue to be carried out in Beni, despite the prevailing security situation;
• He reported that the response to the last indigenous case recorded in Beni is still weak as the maximum contact is still out of sight;
• On this occasion, Dr. Tosalisana called on the population of Beni and the surrounding areas affected by this 10th epidemic to accompany the teams of the response in their field work in order to spare this city from any new contamination.
Repatriation in Goma of the remains of two agents of the riposte who died during the Biakato attacks
• The mortal remains of two agents registered by the coordination of the response to the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak during the attacks on the night of Wednesday 27 to Thursday, November 28, 2019 in Biakato Mines in the province of Ituri have repatriated this Friday 29 November 2019 from Beni to Goma;
• A strong delegation from the General Coordination of the Response, led by its coordinator, Prof. Steve Ahuka Mundeke, rushed to Goma Airport to receive these bodies which were then taken to the General Hospital morgue. Goma reference;
• Long before, teams from the Mangina and Biakato sub-coordination evacuees arrived in Goma. Since Thursday, November 28, 2019, a few dozen people from these two sub-coordination who were attacked were brought back to Goma for their relocation, said the general coordinator of the response Prof. Steve Ahuka.
VACCINATION
• The vaccination commission is in mourning. A service provider and a driver of her team were killed on the night of Wednesday 27 November 2019 following attacks at the Biakato living base in Ituri;
• 2nd day without vaccination activity with the 2nd J & J vaccine following the disorders initiated by young people related to the security situation in Beni;
• 821 people were vaccinated with the 2nd Ad26.ZEBOV / MVA-BN-Filo vaccine (Johnson & Johnson) in the two Health Zones of Karisimbi in Goma;
• From the start of vaccination on August 8, 2018 with the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine, until November 27, 2019, 255,373 people were vaccinated;
• Approved October 22, 2019 by the Ethics Committee of the School of Public Health of the University of Kinshasa and October 23, 2019 by the National Ethics Committee, the second vaccine, called Ad26.ZEBOV / MVA-BN -Filo, is produced by Janssen Pharmaceuticals for Johnson & Johnson;
• This new vaccine is in addition to the first, the rVSV-ZEBOV, vaccine used until then (since August 08, 2018) in this epidemic manufactured by the pharmaceutical group Merck, after approval of the Ethics Committee on May 20, 2018. has recently been pre-qualified for registration.
MONITORING AT ENTRY POINTS
• Sanitary control activities are disrupted in the Beni and Mangina sub-coordinations in North Kivu, as well as Mambasa and Biakato in Ituri following the demonstrations of the population who decry the killings of civilians and the attacks of armed innocents who took target response teams;
• Since the beginning of the epidemic, the total number of checked travelers (temperature rise) at the sanitary control points is 121,813,958 ;
• To date, a total of 109 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.