REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN Paix-Travail-Patrie SERVICES DU PREMIER MINISTRE SECRETARIAT GENERAL REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON Peace-Work-Fatherland PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE SECRETARIAT GENERAL
# PRESS RELEASE
Under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister, Head of Government, H.E. Joseph DION NGUTE, this Thursday, 27 August 2020, the 21st weekly meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Committee in charge of evaluating and monitoring the implementation of Government's response strategy against the COVID-19 pandemic in Cameroon was held.
The following items featured on the agenda:
- the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic in Cameroon;
- Community mobilisation around prevention for socially vulnerable people in the context of the fight against COVID-19;
- the reopening of European borders to Cameroonian nationals.
In his report, the Minister of Public Health stated that 19,142 people have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak of this disease in Cameroon. To date, 17,651 patients have been cured and 411 deaths have been reported, representing a recovery rate of 92.2%, compared to 91.4% last week. With a view to limiting the spread of the virus, 102 screening sites have been set up and mobile caravans are being organized in administrations and places of mass gatherings. In addition to the system in place at ports and airports, 35 health units are now operational at various border posts, with a view to strengthening the country's health security.
In addition, the specialised services of the Ministry of Public Health are working, in liaison with the competent administrations, to draw up health protocols to be implemented as soon as the sports season resumes and the school and university academic year 2020/2021 begins.
With regard to community mobilization around prevention for socially vulnerable people in the fight against COVID-19, especially children, the elderly and the disabled, the Minister of Social Affairs indicated that the initiatives undertaken include the launch, as of 1 April 2020, of the operation to confine street children. 102 of the 162 enlisted have been reintegrated into their families, while 43 have been placed at the Institution Camerounaise de l'Enfance in Betamba.
Emphasis was also laid on the development and implementation of an Operational Action Plan for the protection of disabled persons against COVID-19, the conduct of a special awareness-raising and information
campaign to prevent the spread of the coronavirus among indigenes, and the psychosocial support of infected and affected persons through the deployment of social workers alongside medical personnel. These actions are to be intensified in order to strengthen the prevention system set up for socially vulnerable people.