Active surveillance suspected case definition
A patient diagnosed with Upper/Lower Respiratory Infection (Mild or Severe)
presenting any of the following signs and symptoms: cough, sore throat, fever,
chills, myalgia/body pains or shortness of breath.
e Surveillance activities
" Daily pillar and intra-pillar discussions are held to deliberate daily progress,
gaps and way forward;
= Call centre continue operations for 24 hours per day.
« Data entry is ongoing and data dashboards are under development.
= Active case finding is currently underway in Khomas, Erongo and Kharas
regions, aimed to look for possible community transmission.
« Contact tracing is ongoing (see table 3)
# People under mandatory quarantine are being monitored daily (see table 4)
and will be tested before discharge, starting after 15 April
« Testing will expand to include outpatients with symptoms (any one of cough,
sore throat, fever, chills, myalgia/body pains or shortness of breath)
Table2: Number of suspected cases of COVID-19 from active case search, 14.04.2020
Laboratory results
Region
Number of suspected cases
Positive
Negative
Khomas | 22
0
22
Erongo
5
0
5
//Karas
2
0
2
Total
29
0
29
Contact tracing Summary
Table 3: National contacts tracing summary as of 14.04.2020
Variables
Contact risk level
High
Medium | Low |
Total Number of contacts listed (potential)
67
46
116
Total Number of contacts identified
66
46
100
Total Number of active contacts (being
20
5
7
followed)
Number of contacts monitored/followed in the 20
5
7
last 24hrs
Total number of Contacts completed 14-days 43
38
8g
follow up
en Number of contacts that developed signs 3
6
4
symptoms
Total Number of contacts tested positive
]
1
0
*Total Number of contacts tested without signs
and symptoms
10
1
4
© Total Number of contacts lost to follow up 0
2
5
# Total number of Contacts never reached
1
0
16
*Number of contacts without signs & symptoms tested. One tested positive.
© Seven contacts are lost to follow up, all are non-Namibians and have travelled back to their countries.
# Seventeen contacts could not be reached as they did not provide contact numbers.
Total
229
212
32
32
169
36
4
15
7
17
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