Table 4.
Proportion of suspected and confirmed COVID-19 infected respondents per province
| Haut-Katanga (n=425) | Kasai-Central (n=903) | Kasai-Oriental (n=559) | Kinshasa (n=810) | Nord-Kivu (n=488) | Total (n=3058) | |
| Meeting WHO case definition,* n (%) | 116 (27) | 20 (2) | 60 (10) | 12 (1) | 3 (1) | 211 (6) |
| Meeting new case definition†, n (%) | 128 (30) | 20 (2) | 69 (11) | 17 (2) | 7 (1) | 241 (7) |
| Anosmia, n (%) | 9 (2) | 1 (<1) | 2 (<1) | 9 (1) | 3 (1) | 24 (1) |
| Ageusia, n (%) | 33 (8) | 1 (<1) | 16 (3) | 14 (2) | 5 (1) | 69 (2) |
| Tested for COVID-19, n (%) |
7 (2) | 0 | 2 (<1) | 24 (3) | 2 (<1) | 35 (1) |
| Positive | 2 (29) | 0 | 1 (50) | 0 | 0 | 3 (9) |
| Negative | 5 (71) | 0 | 1 (50) | 0 | 0 | 32 (91) |
*Individuals with fever AND at least one respiratory symptom (dry cough, productive cough, shortness of breath, sore throat, coryza). Contacts/epidemiological links not taken into consideration.
†Individuals with (fever OR anosmia/ageusia) AND at least one respiratory symptom (dry cough, productive cough, shortness of breath, sore throat, coryza). Contacts/epidemiological links not taken into consideration.