Kinshasa, July 24th, 2021 (CPA).– One hundred and thirty (130) new confirmed cases of Covid-19 were recorded Thursday in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), out of 880 samples tested, including 36 cases in South Kivu, 34 in the Haut-Katanga, 29 in North Kivu, 23 in Kinshasa and 8 in Kasaï Central, reports the daily bulletin of the Technical Secretariat of the Multisectoral Committee for the Response to Covid-19, which reached the CPA on Friday.
Data on new deaths of confirmed cases and new recoveries in Covid treatment centers (CTCo) and among patients followed at home are not available following the doctors’ strike.
Since the declaration of the epidemic on March 10, 2020, the cumulative number of cases is 47,404 including 47,403 laboratory-confirmed cases and 1 probable case. In total, there were 1,021 deaths and 29,389 people cured.
The bulletin of the Technical Secretariat of the Multisectoral National Committee for the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic recalls that the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 with the AstraZeneca vaccine has been temporarily suspended for lack of vaccines.
Since the start of the vaccination, on April 19, 2021 until Saturday July 10, 2021, seventy-eight thousand eight hundred and seventy-one (78,871) people have been vaccinated in thirteen (13) provinces of the DRC, with the vaccine AstraZeneca of which 2,513 returned for the second dose. 179,600 doses of vaccines have expired in the provinces (provisional figure) and 7,060 doses in Kinshasa.
The Covid-19 test is free in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, except for travelers who will have to pay US $ 30.
All twenty-six (26) provinces of the DRC are now affected by this pandemic. These are the provinces of Kinshasa (32,573 cases), North Kivu (4,211 cases), Haut-Katanga (2,680 cases), Kongo Central (2,616 cases), Lualaba (1,311 cases), South Kivu (1,221 cases), Ituri (889 cases), Tshopo (629 cases), Haut-Uélé (402 cases), Equateur (352 cases), Nord-Ubangi (103 cases), Kasaï (82 cases), Kasaï Central (70 cases), Sud-Ubangi (64 cases), Haut-Lomami (49 cases), Kasaï Oriental (45 cases), Maniema (42 cases), Tanganyika ( 19 cases), Kwilu (15 cases), Bas-Uélé (7 cases), Kwango (7 cases), Mongala (5 cases), Sankuru (4 cases), Tshuapa (3 cases), Mai-Ndombe (2 cases) and Lomami (2). ACP/Fng/nig