CMRE has published Situation épidémiologique du 01 Janvier 2020. Excerpt from the Google translation:
EVOLUTION OF THE EPIDEMIC IN THE PROVINCES OF NORTH AND SOUTH KIVU AND ITURI AT 31 DECEMBER 2019
Wednesday, January 01, 2020
• Since the start of the epidemic, the cumulative number of cases is 3,380, of which 3,262 are confirmed and 118 probable. In total, there were 2,232 deaths (2,114 confirmed and 118 probable) and 1,114 people healed;
• 410 suspected cases under investigation;
• 3 new confirmed cases in North Kivu, including 2 in Butembo and 1 in Katwa;
• No new deaths from confirmed cases, including:
o No community deaths have been recorded;
o No death among the confirmed cases;
• 8 people healed leaving the CTE in North Kivu in Mabalako;
• No health worker is among the new confirmed cases. The cumulative number of confirmed / probable cases among health workers is 164 (approximately 5% of all confirmed / probable cases), including 41 deaths;
The data presented in this table are likely to change later, after in-depth investigations and after redistribution of cases and deaths in their respective health zones.
NEWS
NOTHING TO REPORT
VACCINATION
• 4,068 people were vaccinated, until December 29, 2019, with the 2nd vaccine Ad26.ZEBOV / MVA-BN-Filo (Johnson & Johnson) in the two health areas from Karisimbi to Goma;
• Since the start of vaccination on August 8, 2018 with the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine, 260,345 people have been vaccinated;
• Approved on October 22, 2019 by the Ethics Committee of the School of Public Health at the University of Kinshasa and on 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 complements the first, rVSV-ZEBOV, a vaccine used until then (since 08 August 2018) in this epidemic manufactured by the pharmaceutical group Merck, after approval by the Ethics Committee on 20 May 2018. It was recently pre-qualified for certification.
ENTRY POINT SURVEILLANCE
• Since the start of the epidemic, the total number of travelers checked (temperature taken) at health checkpoints has been 133,821,593 ;
• To date, a total of 109 entry points (PoE) and health control points (PoC) have been established in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri in order to protect the country's major cities and avoid the spread of the epidemic in neighboring countries.
