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. 2021 Jan 18;11(1):e043356. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043356

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.