DR Congo: No new confirmed case of Ebola on Monday

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - No new confirmed case of the Ebola disease was reported Monday in the province of Equateur, an official source said here Tuesday.

The daily bulletin of the technical secretariat of the national multi-sectoral committee of response to the disease said since the detection of the eleventh epidemic on 1 June, 2020, the total number of cases was 17, including 14 confirmed and three probable cases.

Altogether, there are 11 deaths, made up of eight confirmed and three probable cases, the bulletin said.

The countdown to declare the end of the tenth Ebola epidemic in northeast DR Congo got to its 33rd day without a new confirmed case.

The declaration of the end of the Ebola epidemic in DR Congo will be made 42 days after the negative test of the last patient discharged from the Ebola Treatment Center (ETC), or twice the incubation period of 21 days.

This negative test occurred on 14 May 2020, the source said, adding that, altogether, 3,463 cases of Ebola, including 3,317 confirmed and 146 probable cases, were identified since the declaration of this tenth Ebola epidemic on 1 August 2018.

The epidemic in northeast DRC claimed the lives of 2,280 persons, comprising 2,134 deaths of confirmed and 146 deaths of probable cases, and 1,171 recoveries.

As at now, 420 suspected cases are being investigated.

Since the beginning of the epidemic, the total number of controlled travellers (temperature taking) at health check points, until 13 June 2020, stands at 179,635,921.

In all, 50 entry and health control points are operational out of the 109 established in the North-Kivu and Ituri provinces to protect the country’s big cities and avoid the spread of the epidemic to neighbouring countries.

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