CMRE has published Situation épidémiologique du 30 novembre 2019. Excerpt from the Google translation:
EVOLUTION OF THE EPIDEMIC IN THE PROVINCES OF NORTH KIVU AND ITURI AT NOVEMBER 29, 2019
Saturday, November 30, 2019
• Since the beginning of the epidemic, the cumulative number of cases is 3,310, of which 3,192 are confirmed and 118 are probable. In total, there were 2,202 deaths (2084 confirmed and 118 probable) and 1078 people healed.
• 341 suspected cases under investigation;
• 1 new case confirmed in North Kivu in Mabalako;
• 1 new death of confirmed cases, including:
o 1 community death in Ituri in Biakato;
o No deaths among confirmed cases;
• 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 163 (5% of all confirmed / probable cases), including 41 deaths;
• Ebola response activities are paralyzed in the Mangina and Biakato sub-coordinations for security reasons.
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
Funeral mass in memory of the agent of the response deceased following the attacks of Biakato in Ituri
• A Thanksgiving Mass was organized this Saturday, November 30, 2019 at the Saint Joseph Cathedral in Goma, capital of North Kivu Province in memory of the Biakato Mines Subcommittee on Immunization Commission logistician in Ituri, Belinda Kasongo Kasonzo, who died as a result of the attacks that took place on the night of 27 to 28 November 2019;
• The General Coordinator for the Ebola Response to the Ebola Virus Disease, Prof. Steve Ahuka Mundeke, who presented the biography of the famous disappeared, pointed out that the logistician who leaves the land of humans at the age of 30, is a graduate in computer science management of the Higher Institute of Statistics "ISS Lubumbashi "and spent most of her childhood in Lubumbashi. She arrived in Kinshasa in 2018, where she was hired as a vaccine stock manager for the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI), but long before she worked as an investigator at the World Health Organization (WHO) and as a Data Controller. manager at the Provincial Health Inspectorate of Upper Katanga;
• For the partners in the response, including WHO and UNICEF, Belinda Kasongo was a brave, courageous and above all determined woman. She fell to the front, but the fight will continue until the end. They expressed the wish to see the authorities put an end to this unjustified violence;
• The coordinator of the Biakato sub-coordination, Fabrice Kadima, and all the teams returning from this part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, for this purpose, testified to the conviviality in which they lived with Mrs. Belinda;
• At the end of the Mass, the remains were taken to Goma airport and repatriated to Kinshasa for the funeral of the family.
VACCINATION
• 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, until Thursday, November 28, 2019, with the 2nd Ad26.ZEBOV / MVA-BN-Filo vaccine (Johnson & Johnson) in the two health zones of Karisimbi in Goma;
• Since the start of vaccination on August 8, 2018 with the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine, until November 27, 2019, 255,381 people have been 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 travelers checked (temperature measurement ) at the sanitary control points is 122,099,389 ;
• 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.
