52 new cases, 33 deaths

02 Where

Ituri accounts for more than half of the new cases: 30 of 52. Next come Nord-Kivu (17) and Haut-Uélé (5). The other five provinces report none.

Five health zones account for 35 of these cases: Mandima leads with 12, then Beni (8), Mambasa (8), Lita (4) and Isiro (3). Over the past three weeks, 46 of the 67 affected zones had at least one new case; the other 21, none.

03 Deaths

Of the 33 deaths of the day, 19 occurred in the community, outside a treatment centre: 10 in Ituri, 8 in Nord-Kivu and 1 in Haut-Uélé. The other 14 occurred in a treatment centre: 9 in Nord-Kivu and 5 in Ituri.

04 The response

Teams received 4,726 reports of possible patients ("alerts") and checked 4,699: 573 were retained as suspected cases, to be tested.

In the laboratory, 52 of the 557 samples tested were positive, that is 9.3 %. This share reaches 15.8 % in Ituri.

79.7 % of contacts, the people who had been close to a patient, were seen by follow-up teams. In Tshopo, only 56.1 % of contacts were seen, fewer than three in four.

Safe burials, carried out by protected teams to avoid contagion: 153 burials carried out and 189 bodies tested. The 14 deaths reported do not come from the same provinces: not all of them publish these figures, and the three numbers are not comparable.

Vaccination: 21,866 people have received the Ervebo vaccine since the campaign began on 26 August, 619 more of them in three days (345 in Ituri and 274 in Tshopo).

05 The difficulties encountered

In Ituri, the Mabitane health centre in Lolwa was set on fire. Infection prevention teams are short of staff in Mangala and Mandima and of supplies in Mandima and Mambasa, and staff are on strike in Tchomia.

In Nord-Kivu, checkpoint workers on the Butembo road remain under threat.

In Haut-Uélé, the threat still hangs over workers on the Bolebole road.

In Tshopo, the public-sector strike is cutting attendance at health centres, and psychosocial support lacks motorbikes and phone credit.

In Bas-Uélé, the workers' strike is halting the Viadana checkpoints.

At checkpoints, September salaries are still unpaid in Ituri and Haut-Uélé, and Nord-Kivu is three months behind.

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