作者
Abdullahi Aborode, Wireko Andrew Awuah, Aashna Mehta, Abdul-Rahman Toufik, Shahzaib Ahmad, Anna Chiara Corriero, Ana Carla dos Santos Costa, Esther Patience Nansubuga, Elif Gecer, Katerina Namaal Bel-Nono, Aymar Akilimali, Christian Inya Oko, Yves Miel H Zuñiga
发表日期
2023/3
来源
Postgraduate medical journal
卷号
99
期号
1169
页码范围
93-95
出版商
Oxford University Press
简介
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) witnessed the foremost case of COVID-19 on 10 March 2020. The caseload further increased, with 10630 points recorded and 272 deaths as of 28 September 2020 [1]. The number of novel cases of COVID-19 is constantly upsurging with a test positivity rate of 21%[1]. The latest update as of 13 March 2022 disclosed 86315 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with over 34000 active patients and 1335 deaths [2]. DRC COVID-19 vaccination rate is also low, as only 110 634 out of the 1 054 720 COVID-19 vaccination doses received as of 22 September 2021 were deployed. This accounts for just 0.03% of the entire population being fully vaccinated since April 2021, when the country began its vaccination [3]. Various exacerbating factors contributing to a poor healthcare system in DRC include conflict, healthcare resource constraint and exhaustion, poor infrastructure, insufficient …
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