Weekly Update on Ebola Virus Disease (EVD): Preparedness for South Sudan Update #31 (7 April 2019)

Since the launching of vaccination on 28 January 2019, a total of 1, 706 health care and frontline workers received Ebola vaccination in Yei State River, Gbudue State and Nimule/Torit State. The vaccination exercise completed in Yambio and Yei and is ongoing in Nimule area and will be extended to other high risk areas. A suspected EVD alert was reported in Ezo County, Tambura State. Accordingly, the State Rapid Response Team (RRT) deployed to investigate and collect sample. The results for GenXpert and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) were negative for Ebola virus disease. The GeneXpert and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tested negative. So far, 43 EVD alerts received, of these, 24 investigated and met case definitions and tested negative for EVD