Cameroon: COVID-19 cases - 20,009 cases; 415 deaths

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Source: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/202..._138946425.htm


Confirmed COVID-19 cases soar to 509 in Cameroon
Source: Xinhua| 2020-04-04 11:32:38|Editor: huaxia

YAOUNDE, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Cameroon on Friday reported 203 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, bringing the total to 509, Health Minister Manaouda Malachie said at a press briefing.

Among those 509 cases, there are eight deaths including a health professional, and 17 recoveries, he added...

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Cameroon recorded 46 new cases of the novel coronavirus Saturday taking the number of known cases to 555, authorities have said. Out of this number, nine deaths have been recorded while 17 persons have recovered.

Government has now ramped up efforts to track down those who travelled to the country from Europe and escaped quarantine. In fact, the Minister of Public Health, Manaouda Malachie, on March 30, in Yaound?, admitted that some of 261passengers who arrived Douala from some COVID-19 infested countries in Europe, by Air France and SN Brussels on March 17, escaped from hotels where they were to be quarantined for 14 days.

The Public Health Minister promised that an operation to track down the quarantine-escapees, believed to be hiding among family members will effectively commence on April 2, alongside a mass testing exercise.

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Source: http://www.cameroon-info.net/article...85-368313.html

Cameroon - Covid-19: Cameroon has 43 cases of recovery for a total of 685 infected people
By B?atrice KAZE | Cameroon-Info.Net
YAOUNDE - 07-Apr-2020 - 3.13pm 1652

The news was given on April 7, 2020 by the Minister of Public Health, Malachie Manaouda. However, 27 new positive cases were registered.

This is undoubtedly the good news of the day in the fight against the Coronavirus in Cameroon. The country now records 43 cases of recovery. 11 at the Laquintinie hospital in Douala, 17 at the general hospital in Yaound?, 9 at Jamot and 6 at the central hospital in Yaound?. The information was provided by the Minister of Public Health, Malachie Manaouda, on his twitter account.

Unfortunately, 27 new positive cases were registered this Tuesday, April 7, 2020, deplores MINSANTE. This brings to 685 the number of people infected with Covid-19 in the country.

In his tweet, Malachie Manaouda wanted to congratulate "the health staff for their professionalism".

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In a bid to stop the spread of the COVID-19 in Cameroon’s coastal city of Douala, city officials led by Mayor Roger Mbassa Ndine on Monday (April 6) distributed face masks to motorcycle and taxi drivers.

The mayor said the aim is to combat the spread of the virus which could explode due to the high mobility of residents. “We will intensify the distribution in the coming days in the other boroughs, our wish is that everyone has a mask all day long. Wearing a mask will be made compulsory,” the Mayor said.

Cameroon is one of few African countries that have not imposed restrictions on movement despite being sub-Saharan Africa’s second most impacted after South Africa.

“These masks are washable, you can wash them in the evening and wear them the next day. This is the way to stop the spread of the coronavirus,” he stressed.

One month after the discovery of the first case of coronavirus in Cameroon, the country os of April 9 had 730 cases with 10 deaths and 60 recoveries. The virus has spread to five regions of the country

For Brice Ekanga, a vendor it is important to have such preventive measures against a very difficult and rampaging virus. “If it were my decision, I would have liked total containment. Can you imagine if I take a taxi for example, if you are in the taxi and you are even only two people, if one person is infected the other will automatically be infected.”

District mayors have also launched a sanitation campaign to disinfect unsanitary areas. Authorities said the situation is worrying and called for barrier measures to stop the pandemic from spreading

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https://www.africanews.com/2020/04/0...avirus-crisis/

Cameroon’s aged president is coming under fire for his absence from the national stage as the central African country faces a burgeoning coronavirus crisis.

A month after the first case of COVID-19 was recorded, 87-year-old Paul Biya has yet to address the nation — a silence that for supporters is a sign of gravitas but for critics one of failure.

According to official figures posted early Monday, Cameroon has 658 cases of the virus, with nine deaths, making it the second most-affected country after South Africa in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Cameroon’s COVID-19 cases move up to 803
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Cameroon’s Coronavirus cases have increased by twenty-three, bringing the number of confirmed infected persons to eight hundred and three.

The new figures were revealed this evening, after the daily press briefing on the situation of COVID-19 in Cameroon.

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https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/live/tori-51750354

As of now Cameroon get 803 Covid-19 positive cases, close to 100 pipo don recover and 12 don die.

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820 cases: https://www.journalducameroun.com/en...cases-hit-820/

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Source: http://www.cameroon-info.net/article...es-368688.html

Cameroon - COVID-19: Cameroon now has 836 infected people
By Yannick A. KENNE | Cameroon-Info.Net

Wearing a mask which has become compulsory Rights reserved
The Ministry of Public Health registered 16 new positive test cases this Saturday April 11, 2020.

The number of cases tested positive for Coronavirus is constantly increasing in Cameroon, despite the relative application of the measures prescribed by the government. They went to 836 infected subjects, according to the daily report made public this Saturday, April 11, 2020 by the Ministry of Public Health. 16 new cases were registered during this day.

The health authorities are satisfied all the same with a considerable reduction in the number of deaths in the world, and believe to know that that foreshadows a beginning of inflection of the curve of the statistics, less and less alarmist. In Cameroon, the healing of 37 people further strengthened the public authorities on the good points scored in this fight against COVID-19.

Also, the medical personnel who deploy on a daily basis without respite are celebrated for their achievements in this fight. The state for its part never tires of calling on the populations to scrupulously respect the measures decreed to avoid the risk of spreading the virus.

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Source: http://www.cameroon-info.net/article...es-368727.html

Cameroon - Coronavirus: Cameroon registers 12 new positive test cases and 2 additional deaths
By Yannick A. KENNE | Cameroon-Info.Net
YAOUNDE - 12-Apr-2020 - 7:47 p.m. 470

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This brings to 848 the total number of infected people and to 14 the number of people who died as a result of this pandemic on Cameroonian soil.

The epidemiological situation linked to the COVID-19 pandemic in Cameroon is still not improving. New positive cases were recorded during this day on Sunday, April 12, 2020, that is 12, which bring the total number of infected people to 848 since the advent of the pandemic on Cameroonian territory on March 5, 2020. It These are eleven cases recorded in the Center region, specifically in Yaound?, and one case reported in the West region.

The Ministry of Public Health which indicated in its daily point Sunday evening, also reports two new deaths. They are male subjects, aged 72 and 78 respectively. The total of deaths is now set at 14 people according to official data from the ministry.

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Source: http://www.cameroon-info.net/article...es-368997.html

Cameroon - Coronavirus: Cameroon now records 158 cured patients and 16 deaths
By Alain G. KANGA | Cameroon-Info.Net
YAOUNDE - 14-Apr-2020 - 7:50 pm 978


Dr Alain Georges Etoundi during the daily press briefing of Minsante Alain Ghislain Kanga
The information was given this April 14, 2020 in Yaound?, during the daily press point of the Ministry of Public Health.

More good news ! Engaged in the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic, Cameroon continues to score points. The country registers 28 new cured patients. The announcement was made on the evening of April 14, 2020, by Dr Alain Georges Etoundi Mballa, director of the fight against disease, epidemics and pandemic, at the Ministry of Public Health, during the daily press briefing , at the health emergency operations center in Yaound?.

The number of people recovered from the disease has now risen to 158. The representative of Manaouda Malachie also made other announcements. 2 new patients lost their lives. This now brings the total to 16 deaths.

Dr. Alain Georges Etoundi announced the second successive delivery of a healthy baby, born to a mother with Covid-19 at the Central Hospital of Yaound?.

The authorities have chosen to no longer insist on new infections. Consequently, the official figure known to date is 848 positive cases.

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Source: https://fr.cameroonmagazine.com/en/a...i-les-details/

Coronavirus : Cameroon soon 1000 case here are the details
Cameroon records this 16 avril 2020 a total of 922 active coronavirus cases including 24 health workers.
By CAMEROON MAGAZINE -
16/04/2020

Cameroon records this 16 avril 2020 a total of 922 active coronavirus cases including 24 health workers.

It was the Minister of Public Health Manaoudou Malachi who just announced it in the hemicycle during the oral question session.

On the 922 case, specifies the authority, 374 are hospitalized and 30 breathe artificially with the help of respirators. 21 people died and more than 200 healed.

The Minister also clarified that the age range of those affected is between 0 and 80 years. A woman who gave birth and later infected her baby with 3 month.

Au total, 40 000 calls were received by the public emergency center on matters directly related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

During the session, the health minister announced that the budget allocated for the response is 58 billion FCFA. This sum made it possible to order 300 000 tests and 100 respirators for foreign partners. The delivery of these products is scheduled for 18 avril 2020..

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Cameroon’s Coronavirus confirmed cases have climbed up to nine hundred and ninety-six, the Prime Minister Head of Government Chief Dr Joseph Dion Ngute announced Thursday evening.

He made the announcement after an evaluation meeting on the evolution of the implementation of Government’s anti-COVID-19 measures via video conference

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http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_th...t_75948681.htm

YAOUNDE, April 18 (Xinhua) -- The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Cameroon has climbed to 1,016, according to the real time statistics updated Saturday morning by the Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Cameroon health authorities, who has stopped informing the public about the total number of infections since a week ago, said Friday evening that 22 persons died of the novel coronavirus, while there are 177 cured cases.

According to Cameroon health authorities, to date, seven out of ten regions of the country have reported COVID-19 cases, with more than half of the cases detected in the central region where the capital Yaounde is located.

Over 20 healthcare professionals have contracted the virus since the beginning of the pandemic in Cameroon on March 6.