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Angola: WHO Yellow fever outbreak in Angola Situation Report, 10 April 2016

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Source: World Health Organization
Country: Angola

I. Key Highlights

  • The UN Resident Coordinator and the WHO Country Representative will be visiting Huambo Province on Thursday

  • The overall administrative coverage of the vaccination campaign in Luanda province is 90% of the targeted population (5,900,775 of 6,583,216)

  • The total stock of Yellow fever vaccines as of 10 April: 670,700 doses at central store

  • Huambo will be launching the Yellow fever response vaccination campaign on 12 April targeting 930,751 individuals aged 6 months and above

  • Benguela province is yet to commence, the preparation process is ongoing with the technical support of the central level team deployed to the province.

II. Epidemiological Situation as of 10 April 2016

  • A total of 1,751 suspected cases with 242 deaths were reported, of which 582 were laboratory confirmed cases

  • Of the 582 laboratory confirmed cases, 406 were from Luanda province, 85 from Huambo, 22 from Benguela and the remaining 69 were from the other affected provinces

  • Fifty nine (59) districts have laboratory confirmed cases in 12 out of the 18 provinces in the country

  • Local transmission in 10 districts with 18 confirmed cases in 5 provinces see in Fig. 3

  • New samples tested were 69 samples with one confirmed from Cazenga in Luanda province with date of onset on 3 April 2016

  • No new districts with confirmed cases reported


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