I. Key Highlights
MoH and WHO started preparation for the next phase of vaccination campaign, to include 4 provinces
Angola will receive 2,434,900 doses of yellow fever vaccine on 12 May 2016 from the Institute Pasteur Dakar and Sanofi (France)
Benguela ends vaccination campaign in three districts with a coverage of 88%; Huambo continues vaccination campaign rural areas
II. Epidemiological Situation as of 8 May 2016
A cumulative total of 2,267 suspected cases with 293 deaths have been reported, of which 696 were confirmed cases including 93 confirmed deaths
Of the 696 confirmed cases, 445 were from Luanda province and the remaining 251 from other provinces.
A new province (Namibe) and five (5) new districts (Kissama, Bailombo, Bailundo, Ukuma and Namibe) are added to list of districts with local transmission
Sixty nine (69) districts have laboratory confirmed cases in 14 out of the 18 provinces in the country
A total of 48 confirmed cases of local transmission have been identified in 21 districts in 7 provinces (see Table 3)