Kinshasa, March 16th2023 (CPA). – Two new confirmed cases of Covid-19 were recorded on Monday in the province of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), out of 725 samples tested, reported the daily bulletin of the technical secretariat of the Multisectoral Committee for the response to Covid-19, which reached CPA on Wednesday.
The same source said that the Covid-19 test is free in DRC, except for unvaccinated travellers who will have to pay 30 US dollars.
The following are the most affected provinces in the DRC: Kinshasa (50,888 cases); North Kivu (10,776 cases); South Kivu (7,039 cases); Central Congo (6,562 cases); Lualaba (6,124 cases); Upper Uele (4,060 cases); Shop (1,705 cases); Shopping (1,583 cases); Ituri (1,444 cases); Eastern Kasai (957 cases); Kasai (493 cases); Maniema (354 cases); Bitten (341 cases); North Ubangi (292 cases): Kwilu (230 cases); Mongolian (207 cases); Tshuapa (154 cases); Whitewater (129 cases); Kwango (127 cases); Lower Uele (108 cases); Upper Loma (91 cases); Tanganyika (62 cases); Sankuru (58 cases).
Since the declaration of the epidemic in DRC on March 10th2020, the cumulative number of cases is 95,853, of which 95,861 are laboratory confirmed and 2 are probable. In total, there have been 84,395 recoveries and 1,465 deaths so far. CPA/