CMRE has published Situation épidémiologique du 05 Janvier 2020. Excerpt from the Google translation:
EVOLUTION OF THE EPIDEMIC IN THE PROVINCES OF NORTH KIVU AND ITURI ON 04 JANUARY 2020
Sunday, January 05, 2020
• Since the start of the epidemic, the cumulative number of cases has been 3,388, of which 3,270 have been confirmed and 118 are probable. In total, there were 2,233 deaths (2,115 confirmed and 118 probable) and 1,114 people healed;
• 464 suspected cases under investigation;
• 2 new confirmed cases in Ituri in Mambasa;
• No new deaths among the confirmed cases, of which:
o No community death was recorded;
o No death among the confirmed cases;
• No healed person has left the CTE;
• 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;
• Mambasa re-notified a confirmed case after 66 days of silence.
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
• 4,551 people were vaccinated, until 02 December 2020, 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, 261,285 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 August 08, 2018) in this epidemic manufactured by the pharmaceutical group Merck, after approval by the Ethics Committee on May 20, 2018. was recently pre-qualified for certification.
ENTRY POINT SURVEILLANCE
• Rehabilitation of the Biakato mines / Lalia control point in Ituri after its fire by unknown persons on the night of January 2 to 3, 2020;
• Since the start of the epidemic, the cumulative number of travelers checked (temperature taken) at health checkpoints is 135,167,087 ;
• 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.
