Source:
https://actualite.cd/2020/07/02/cov...a-rdc-compte-2-317-patients-retablis-bulletin
Covid-19: with more than 1,100 cured in 72 hours, the DRC has 2,317 recovered patients (Bulletin)
Covid-19 / Bulletin n ? 100
Wednesday, July 01, 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 THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO ON JULY 01, 2020.
Date: Wednesday, July 01, 2020
• Since the start of the epidemic declared on March 10, 2020, the cumulative number of cases has been 7,189, including 7,188 confirmed cases and 1 probable case. In total, there were 176 deaths (175 confirmed cases and 1 probable case) and 2,317 people healed;
• 143 suspected cases detected after investigations;
• 67 new confirmed cases, including 49 in Kinshasa, 7 in Kongo Central, 4 in South Kivu, 3 in North Kivu, 2 in Haut-U?l? and 2 in Lualaba;
• 662 samples tested;
• 1 new death from confirmed cases, including:
o No community deaths have been recorded;
o 1 death in Kinshasa at the University Clinics of Kinshasa;
• 532 new people left cured.
* The 14 affected provinces:
• Kinshasa: 6,323 cases;
• Kongo Central: 325 cases;
• Haut-Katanga: 222 cases;
• South Kivu: 145 cases;
• North Kivu: 115 cases;
• Lualaba: 22 cases;
• Tshopo: 12 cases;
• Haut-U?l?: 11 cases;
• Kwilu: 4 cases;
• South Ubangi: 3 cases;
• Ecuador: 2 cases;
• Ituri: 2 cases;
• Haut-Lomami: 1 case:
• Kwango: 1 case.
The 10 most affected health zones in Kinshasa until June 30, 2020 *
Health zones Number of cases
Gombe 597
Limete 579
Kokolo 467
Binza Ozone 459
Lemba 392
Binza Weather 385
Kasa-Vubu 207
Mount Ngafula I 182
Kintambo 181
Lingwala 168
/! \ 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. *
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 destined for the Democratic Republic authorized to enter the national territory and their personnel subject to controls;
2. Postponement of Congo trips for 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 coming 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 the gathering 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 halls 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/433b917a6c36/covid-19-bulletin-n-100-du-mercredi-01-juillet-2020
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LEXICON
• A probable case is a death for which it was not possible to obtain biological samples for laboratory confirmation, but, the investigation of which has revealed an epidemiological link with a confirmed or probable case.
For all contacts:
- The teacher. Steve AHUKA MUNDEKE
Incident Manager
