CMRE has published Situation épidémiologique du 05 décembre 2019. Excerpt from the Google translation:
EVOLUTION OF THE EPIDEMIC IN THE PROVINCES OF NORTH KIVU AND ITURI AT 04 DECEMBER 2019
Thursday, 05 December 2019
• Since the beginning of the epidemic, the cumulative number of cases is 3,318, of which 3,200 are confirmed and 118 are probable. In total, there were 2,207 deaths (2,089 confirmed and 118 probable) and 1,084 people healed.
• 357 suspected cases under investigation;
• 5 new confirmed cases in North Kivu, including 3 in Beni, 1 in Mabalako and 1 in Oicha;
• No new deaths among confirmed cases;
• No cured person has emerged from CTEs;
• 1 health worker is one of the newly confirmed cases in North Kivu in Mabalako. The cumulative number of confirmed / probable cases among health workers is 164 (5% of all confirmed / probable cases), including 41 deaths;
• Ebola response activities are paralyzed in Beni, Mangina and Biakato sub-coordination 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
End of mission of the general coordinator of the epidemic response to the Ebola Virus Disease in Biakato and Beni
• The mission of Ebola Virus Disease Response Coordinator, Prof. Steve Ahuka Mundeke, to Biakato in Ituri and Beni in North Kivu ended on Thursday, December 05, 2019;
• After his visit to Biakato in Ituri, the general coordinator of the response traveled to Beni, North Kivu, where he spent the night with his entire delegation;
• Very early in the morning, he went to Beni's sub-coordination to take part in the morning meeting on the evolution of the epidemic to Ebola Virus Disease. The meeting room was full. On this occasion, the General Coordinator congratulated and comforted the teams made up mostly of the premises for the work done during this period of crisis;
• Immediately afterwards, he went to the IDP camp in Lwemba, which is currently in Beni. These displaced people are demanding the return of the Lwemba response teams to continue their work against Ebola and put an end to this disease, which is currently killing many people in their communities;
• He invited the entire population of Biakato and Lwemba to get involved in the activities of the response, because without their involvement, he said, Ebola Virus Disease can not be defeated
VACCINATION
• 1161 people were vaccinated with the 2nd Ad26.ZEBOV / MVA-BN-Filo vaccine (Johnson & Johnson) in the two Health Zones of Karisimbi in Goma;
• 60 people, including 33 high-risk contacts and 27 contacts of contacts, were vaccinated around the confirmed Beni case in the Kanzulinzuli Health Area in Beni / HGR, North Kivu;
• Since the start of vaccination on August 8, 2018 with the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine, 255,852 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 were resumed in the various entry and control points of the Beni and Mangina sub-coordinations in North Kivu;
• 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 rise) at the sanitary control points is 123,641,729 ;
• 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.
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