Volume 27, Number 12—December 2021
Synopsis
Evaluation of Early Warning, Alert and Response System for Ebola Virus Disease, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2018–2020
Table 1
Characteristic | No. (%) alerts, n = 194,768 |
---|---|
Year | |
2018 | 3,211 (1.6) |
2019 | 67,579 (34.7) |
2020 |
123,978 (63.7) |
Final alert status | |
Invalidated | 163,606 (84.0) |
Validated | 30,728 (15.8) |
Not investigated |
434 (0.2) |
Alert initial status | |
Deceased | 5,230 (2.7) |
Alive |
189,538 (97) |
Final case classification | |
Not a case | 193,964 (99.6) |
Confirmed case | 801 (0.4) |
Probable |
3 (<0.1) |
Source of alert | |
Active case finding | 121,970 (62.6) |
Health structure | 36,911 (19.0) |
Community | 28,928 (15.0) |
Other surveillance sites |
6,959 (3.6) |
Health zone | |
Beni | 167,503 (86.0) |
Mutwanga | 12,891 (6.6) |
Oicha |
14,374 (7.4) |
Sex | |
F | 109,605 (56.3) |
M | 84,442 (43.4) |
Unknown |
721 (0.4) |
Age group | |
0–4 | 45,934 (23.6) |
5–9 | 22,220 (11.4) |
10–19 | 36,825 (18.9) |
20–29 | 37,945 (19.5) |
30–39 | 21,975 (11.3) |
40–49 | 11,186 (5.7) |
50–59 | 6,668 (3.4) |
>60 | 8,679 (4.5) |
Unknown |
3,336 (1.7) |
Known contact of confirmed or probable case | |
No | 194,052 (99.6) |
Yes | 672 (0.3) |
Unknown | 44 (0.1) |
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