Africa-Press – South-Sudan. Official with the national ministry of health has warned of a possible resurgence of COVI-19 as the country continues to witness increased infection rate.
Dr. Angelo Guop Thon the Chief of the National Public Emergency Operation Center (EOC), said the infection rate had increased to five percent in the week running from October 24 to October 30, 2021 with more than 100 cases recorded during the period.
Previous weeks recorded lessfigures. “What I want to say here isCOVID-19 still exist in the country and we are at the alarm level. We are notat the resurgence level yet.” he said.
“We need our public to stickto the preventive measures. We want to see people observing social distancingrules, avoiding unnecessary gathering and if there should be any gathering, itshould be approved by auditing committee under the national taskforce and inconsultation with the public health emergency operation center such that thegathering will be guided and preventive measures observed to avoid moretransmission,” he said.
According to the official,as of October 30, there were at least 109 cases recorded this past week,bringing the cumulative cases to 12,402 and 133 deaths since the pandemic beganlast year.
On the ongoing COVID-19vaccination campaign across the country, at least 135,000 people had receivedvaccine including some 50,335 people fully vaccinated according to Dr.SachaBootsma the country WHO COVID-19 Incident Manger.
Dr. Bootsma also revealedthat South Sudan will receive additional 228,000 doses through the COVAXfacility in the coming weeks. Theyinclude 60,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine and 168,000 doses of the Johnsonand Johnson.
“We have good news that wewill be receiving in the next couple of weeks another 60,000 doses ofAstraZeneca vaccine to all those who still needed to get their second doses andalso 168,000 doses of Johnson and Johnson vaccine,” she announced during theweekly COVID-19 situation update at the EOC.
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