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Ebola Virus Disease Preparedness Update 24 UPDATE 24 8 to 14 June 2020 IOMIOM SOUTHSOUTH SUDANSUDAN WEEKLYWEEKLY EBOLAEBOLA VIRUSVIRUS DISEASEDISEASE PREPAREDNESSPREPAREDNESS UPDATEUPDATE Lakes Jonglei COUNTIES RECEIVING HYGIENE PROMOTION SUPPORT IOM DTM FLOW MONITORING POINTS (FMPs) SOUTH HEALTH FACILITIES SUPPORTED WITH IOM WASH INFRASTRUCTURE Wau Airport SUDAN CAR Source Yubu Nabanga DRC Yei Taxi Park Jale Nimule Owiny POINT OF ENTRY (PoE) SITE MANAGEMENT Check Kibul point IOM Bazi CUAMM CORDAID Elegu WORLD VISION UGANDA INDIVIDUALS SCREENED THIS WEEK PER LOCATION & CUMULATIVE SCREENINGS PER LOCATION Bazi Kaya Kerwa Khor Kaya Salia Musala Yei Airport Nimule Wau Nimule Airstrip Juba 0 60 0 0 0 71 2,047 344 0 1,416 INDIVIDUALS 102,078 333,427 131,111 175,883 194,066 3,376 544,802 3,883 556 77,007 SCREENED THIS WEEK: 3,938 ORIGIN OF ENTRANTS WEEKLY OVERVIEW COUNTRY AND NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS TRENDS COMPARED DTM LOCATIONS OF ORIGIN SURVEYED THIS WEEK TO PREVIOUS WEEK ● DTM continued operating 10 Flow Monitoring Points SUSPECTED / DRC Ituri 693 49.7% surveying travelers at selected border points and CONFIRMED DRC Haut-Uele 179 12.8% UGA Yumbe 130 9.3% transit hubs with Uganda, DRC and CAR EVD CASES: 0 UGA Other 87 6.2% KEN Uasin Gishu 60 4.3% WASH KEN Mombasa 49 3.5% UGA Kampala 28 2.0% ● IOM continued to support IPC/WASH activities at 4 KEN Kisumu 27 1.9% PoEs (Kaya, Yei Airstrip, Nimule ground crossing and UGA Moyo 26 1.9% Juba International Airport) out of 5 PoEs (Yei Airstrip, KEN Nairobi 25 1.8% Kaya, Wau Airstrip, Nimule ground crossing, and Juba HEALTH FACILITIES DRC Other 19 1.4% SUPPORTED UGA Gulu 18 1.3% International Airport). The team continues to provide THROUGH WASH CAR Haut-Mbomou 18 1.3% WASH/IPC support and risk communication within ASSISTANCE THIS UGA Tororo 15 1.1% the communities in Attende, Gimunu, Marakonye and WEEK: 7 UGA Arua 15 1.1% OTHER Other 6 0.4% Yei town around the SSRRC as well as in seven health Operational factors, including delayed submission by some FMPs, may affect trends on a week-by-week facilities (Yei state hospital, Kaya PHCC, Rhodoba basis. The trend arrows in the DTM figure refer to the share of respondents from each FMP (as opposed PHCU, Panyume PHCC, Kerwa PHCC, Khorijo PHCU to the absolute numbers) Figures with; indicate upward trend, indicate downward trend, and Morobo PHCC) indicate no change. For a more detailed breakdown, contact [email protected]. During this reporting week, a total of 1,395 entrants were surveyed. Of these, HEALTH INDIVIDUALS REACHED WITH 71.5% were South Sudanese nationals; 14.7% were from Uganda; 7.5% from ● IOM continued with active screening in 5 supported HYGIENE Kenya; 1.6% were from DRC; 1.4% were from Eritrea and a further 3.2% were PoEs, namely: Yei airstrip, Kaya, Nimule PoE, Wau and PROMOTION from other countries. Entrants’ origin information is self-reported. Juba International airport TO DATE: 427,665 WEEKLY EVD PREPAREDNESS UPDATE WEEKLY SCREENING TOTAL INDIVIDUALS SCREENED FOR EVD CASES OF NON-EVD FEVER SINCE SEPTEMBER 2018 (VALUES INDICATED FOR WEEKS WITH 20+ CASES) 70,000 1,000 70,000 1,000 900 900 60,00060,000 800 800 50,000 50,000 700 600 40,00040,000 500 30,00030,000 400 20,00020,000 300 200 10,00010,000 94 117 102 107 98 97 115 69 70 66 74 84 68 71 100 100 31 45 45 56 53 56 138 62 59 59 68 100 27 23 3539 33373629 29 3940 40 27 23 93 343931 105 101 94 85 35 2926 57 69 80 61 71 81 58 62 58 43 17 00 57 49 00 SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN 2018 2019 2020 HEALTH UPDATES IOM continues with EVD prevention and preparedness activities in the 5 PoEs in Morobo County, Yei County, Nimule Payam, Juba County and Wau County. In week twenty-fourth, 3,938 inbound travelers were screened bringing the cumulative number of travelers screened to 2,296,471. There’s increase in the number of travelers screened this week compared to that of last week. There was one traveler who underwent secondary screening in Nimule on 13th June 2020. This brings the total alert during this reporting week to 1. The traveler in question is a Ugandan truck driver who entered the country from Uganda having a high fever of 41.1°C (degree centigrade) which then was investigated by RRT and later isolated at Nimule isolation facility with swab sample collected and transported to Juba Public Health Viral Laboratory (PHVL) on 14th June 2020 by WHO driver. DTM UPDATES Nine FMPs submitted data on time for the Weekly update. One FMP couldn’t submit data due to mobility restrictions related to COVID-19. Based on data submitted by Monday 15 June, 1,395 individuals were surveyed in groups on arrival to South Sudan during the reporting period. The main regions of departure were Ituri (49.7% of respondents) and Haut-Uele (12.8%) in DRC, while the main reported counties of destination were Morobo (49.1%) and Juba (19.7%). Most respondents reported South Sudanese nationality (71.5%), followed by Ugandan (14.7%). IOM screener screening a passenger at Wau main Airstrip on 11 June © IOM 2020 / Ocaya Peter WASH UPDATES OYET During the reporting week, IOM continued with EVD awareness and hygiene promotion activities to the SECURITY CHALLENGES communities in and around 5 locations (Attende, Marakonye, Yei SSRRC, Gimunu, Kaya) Hygiene promotion sessions & COORDINATION were held at water points, markets and households, reaching approximately 4,318 individuals (1,019 men, 1,049 NOTES women,806 boys, 1,242 girls) during this reporting week. ● Clashes have continued in the past week between the armed groups in INDIVIDUALS REACHED WITH HYGIENE PROMOTION ACTIVITIES locations around Yei town, Lainya and Morobo limiting access to the PoE in 80,000 75,000 69,573 Kaya and to health facilities in Morobo 70,000 and Kajo keji. IOM team continue to 65,000 60,000 Total provide remote support from the Yei 55,000 50,000 45,799 number office 45,000 37,718 40,000 35,936 34,535 of participants ● IOM continued to actively participate in 35,000 30,191 of EVD hygiene the various EVD/COVID-19 meetings, 30,000 21,846 21,416 25,000 19,058 promotion including the National Task force 16,403 16,780 20,000 activities since (NTF), COVID-19 National Steering 15,000 8,987 8,842 9,140 10,000 October 2018 committee meetings, Technical 5,000 0 Working Groups (TWGs), and State Task Forces (STFs) BAZI BORI PURE KAYA ● IOM also participated in other weekly BIRIGO KERWA GIMUNU KHORIJO state and county coordination meetings ATTENDE MOROBO YEI SSRRC KHOR-KAYA with OCHA, partners, and other MARAKONYE SALIA-MUSALA stakeholders.
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