lockdown cancelled Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/lockdown-cancelled/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 lockdown cancelled Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/lockdown-cancelled/ 32 32 First case of COVID 19 recorded in EBOLA-hit region of Congo https://jjcornish.com/2020/03/first-case-of-covid-19-recorded-in-ebola-hit-region-of-congo/ Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/03/first-case-of-covid-19-recorded-in-ebola-hit-region-of-congo/ A confirmed case of COVID 19 has been registered in the eastern Congolese capital Goma. The region is within weeks of declaring itself EBOLA free after an outbreak that started last year. The COVID 19 case in Goma is the first of the 17 cases of coronavirus in the DRC not originating in Kinshasa. Authorities […]

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]]> A confirmed case of COVID 19 has been registered in the eastern Congolese capital Goma.

The region is within weeks of declaring itself EBOLA free after an outbreak that started last year.

The COVID 19 case in Goma is the first of the 17 cases of coronavirus in the DRC not originating in Kinshasa.

Authorities had planned a complicated three-week programme of four-day lockdowns in the capital followed by three days of allowing shopping for food.

This has been cancelled because the danger of unrest and price gouging by food merchants.

Public resistance to the fight against EBOLA has prolonged the second worst epidemic of the hemorrhagic fever in history.

The 3440 confirmed cases killed 2264 people 

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