1. Epidemiological Highlights
Four (04) new EVD confirmed cases were reported from Bramaia, Magbema, Samu and Tonko-Limba Chiefdoms in Kamanko, Kambia1, Layah and Kadalo villages respectively. The new Kadalo EVD confirmed case is from the quarantine household whereas the Layah village, Samu Chiefdom EVD confirmed case is from the unknown SWAB case.
The EVD confirmed case from Kambia 1 village, in Magbema Chiefdom is a Health Worker, working in the Ebola Treatment Center (ETU) of Kambia since September, 2014.
A total of n=125 samples (19 blood and 84 Swabs) samples were sent out for this week.
Two (2) blood samples were found to be EVD positive from Kadalo village, Tonko-Limba Chiefdom. These two new cases were from the quarantine households.
A total of n=97 death alerts were reported from Masungbala (9), Tonko-Limba (12 ), Magbema (25),
Bramaia (8), Samu (14), Mambolo (18) and Gbinleh-Dixon (11).A total of n=22 live alerts were reported from five (5) chiefdoms out of seven (7) including Tonko-Limba (4), Magbema (6), Bramaia (3), Samu (3) and Gbinleh-Dixon (6) ). Masungbala and Mambolo chiefdoms reported zero live alerts.