Source:
https://actualite.cd/2020/05/23/cov...x-contamines-la-rdc-atteint-2025-cas-bulletin
COVID-19: with 80 new infected, the DRC reaches 2025 cases
Covid-19 / Bulletin n ? 60
Friday, May 22, 2020
PRESIDENCY OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
MULTISECTORAL COMMITTEE ON THE RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN THE DRC (CMR COVID-19) TECHNICAL SECRETARIAT
Coronavirus control (COVID-19)
SUBJECT: COVID-19 EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SITUATION in Kinshasa, Ituri, North and South Kivu, Kwilu, Haut-Katanga and Kongo Central AU May 22, 2020
Date: Friday, May 22, 2020
• Since the start of the epidemic declared on March 10, 2020, the cumulative number of cases has been 2,025, including 2,024 confirmed cases and 1 probable case. In total, there were 63 deaths (62 confirmed cases and 1 probable case) and 312 people healed;
• 784 suspected cases under investigation;
• 80 new cases confirmed in Kinshasa;
• No new person came out cured;
• No new deaths among the confirmed cases;
• 1,136 patients in good evolution;
• 225 samples tested as of May 21, 2020.
* The 7 affected provinces:
• Kinshasa: 1,879 cases;
• Kongo Central: 110 cases;
• North Kivu: 15 cases;
• Haut-Katanga: 13 cases;
• South Kivu: 4 cases;
• Ituri: 2 cases;
• Kwilu: 1 case.
/! \ 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
Harassment continues against Covid-19 response teams in Kinshasa *
• A doctor treating the Covid-19 of the fiftieth hospital, Dr. Alain Kalutha, was arrested this Friday May 22, 2020 by the Kinshasa Judicial Police on a controversy concerning a patient who died during this month May in this health facility;
• Mr. John Bokene, one of the administrators of the fiftieth hospital, was also arrested on the same occasion;
• After a hearing by a judicial police officer, the two accused presented their defenses and lit the lantern. They were released that same Friday ._ *
As a reminder, the recommendations of the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo against Covid-19 *:
* For access to Congolese territory:
1. Suspension, until further notice, from March 20, 2020, of all flights from countries at risk and transit countries. Only planes and cargo ships and other means of freight transport will be authorized to enter the national territory and their personnel subject to controls;
2. Postponement of trips to the Democratic Republic of the Congo of all resident passengers
3. Requirement for all passengers, upon arrival at national borders, to complete an information sheet and to submit, without exception, to the obligation to wash their hands and take the temperature;
4. Imposition of a quarantine of 14 days maximum on any person suspected at the end of the temperature test, for a thorough examination and if necessary to intern, in the hospitals provided for this purpose, the people who will be tested positive;
5. Provision of all maritime, river, lake and land entry points in the national territory with the same monitoring device to reinforce the control of passengers from abroad;
6. Systematically subjecting people leaving Kinshasa to the various provinces of the DRC to control measures in order to avoid the spread of this pandemic on the rest of our country. *
* For gatherings of people:
1. Prohibition of all gatherings, meetings, celebrations, of more than 20 people in public places outside the family home;
2. Closure of schools, universities, official and private higher institutes throughout the national territory from March 19, 2020 for a period of 4 weeks;
3. Suspension of all services for a period of 4 weeks from March 19, 2020;
4. Suspension of sports activities in stadiums and other places of sports gathering until further notice;
5. Prohibition, until further notice, of the opening of discos, bars, cafes, terraces and restaurants;
6. Ban on the organization of mourning in rooms and homes. The remains will be taken directly from the morgue to the burial site and in a limited number of accompanying persons;
7. Management at government expense of all cases tested positive throughout the territory. *
https://mailchi.mp/fd33fa275b51/covid-19-bulletin-n-60-du-vridredi-22-mai-2020
For all contacts: - Prof. Steve AHUKA MUNDEKE Expert at the Technical Secretariat of the Multi Committee
