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MoH-Angola, WHO and partners decided to scale up response activities to yellow fever in Angola. This will include ensuring a continued presence in high risk provinces for the duration of the outbreak. Inter-agency planning of scaling up is under way. MOH-Angola is creating a roster of public health and epidemiologist experts to contribute to the scale up of response activities at the province level

A process to identify high risk provinces in need of additional support was started at several levels, including risk prioritization performed by IMS team and MoH-Angola in Luanda in combination with risk modelling performed by WHO, Imperial College of London and KEMRI-Oxford University

WHO and partners are planning a technical process review mission of the yellow fever response to be conducted in the coming weeks

New cases with local transmission were documented in Soyo and Londuimbale districts. As a response 243,690 vaccine doses wi ll be sent to border

district of Soyo, Zaire Province, for mass vaccination with a multi-agency vaccination team. The mass campaign is planned to start this week

Mass vaccination campaigns are underway in the border districts of Chitato and Coango (Lunda Norte). Additional campaigns are being planned across the country

1,036,500 doses of vaccine arrived in country and were designated for Coango, Chitato and Soyo districts