{"id":759,"date":"2020-04-24T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hippotechgroup.com\/southwest-region-reports-13-cases-as-more-than-200-tested\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T13:51:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:51:50","slug":"southwest-region-reports-13-cases-as-more-than-200-tested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hippotechgroup.com\/ro\/southwest-region-reports-13-cases-as-more-than-200-tested\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Region Reports 13 Cases as More Than 200 Tested."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hippo-before-content\" id=\"hippo-633220926\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8362125513622191\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8362125513622191\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7257236543\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div><div data-amp-style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-amp-style=\"font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\">The Regional Delegate of Public Health, for the<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southwest_Region_(Cameroon)\"> Southwest Region of Cameroon<\/a>, Dr Ebongo Zacheus Nanje speaking during an evaluation meeting on the pandemic COVID-19 in Buea chaired by the Governor of the region, reported that 13 cases have been confirmed in the area. Furthermore, Limbe has five confirmed cases, while Buea has seven and Kumba has its first case. This result is after 222 cases were tested in the region. The region so far has one dead that was exported to Douala.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-amp-style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-amp-style=\"font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\">Moreso, Dr Ebongo Zacheus went ahead to say, 2 of the 12 cases were health care personnel, and the case fatality rate for Covid-19 in the region is 8.3 per cent. The patients are being treated at the Buea Regional Hospital specialised COVID-19 Centre, with the assistance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/what-we-do\/countries\/cameroon\">Doctors without Borders<\/a>. He also added that those who develop cardiovascular complications are sent to Douala where the recovery rate is very encouraging, according to officials from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minsante.cm\/site\/?q=en\">Ministry of Public Health<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-amp-style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-amp-style=\"font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\">Moreover, we are stepping up our control measures firstly by implementing the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreampointech.com\/2020\/04\/cameroon-governments-7-response.html\">&nbsp;measures<\/a> put in place by the state. At the level of the region, we are improving on contact tracing to these positive 13 cases and also trying to improve on the case management said the Regional Delegate of Public Health to the press.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" data-amp-style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hippotechgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/DrEbongSWRDelphealth.png\" data-amp-style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Southwest Region Reports 13 Cases as More Than 200 have been Tested\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"480\" data-original-width=\"853\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh92ena6jSLTf_sN63H5S_X2c-3y6fErjbiWBempnppdk1cY1WZVBXx_4Ea6EN7ytHOEhyphenhyphencgkemUCSeJJhs7DFBFGrgR3JPknMCkAMt8Y3KnNrP3o9jYVBhVwDgQx65QZEbLmppyOHFeVBd\/s640\/Dr+Ebong+SWR+Del+phealth.png\" title=\"Southwest Region Reports 13 Cases as More Than 200 have been Tested\" width=\"640\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span data-amp-style=\"font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div data-amp-style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-amp-style=\"font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\">To continue, Dr Ebongo says two testing centres have been made available, that is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubuea.cm\/\">University of Buea<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/cbchealthservices.org\/\">Cameroon Baptist Convention Hospital<\/a> at Mutengene. In case they are in need of support, the Ministry of Public Health is ready to grant it&#8217;s expertise and assistance.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-amp-style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-amp-style=\"font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\">To learn how the Corona-virus spreads and what to do to stay safe, click <a href=\"https:\/\/hippotechgroup.com\/ro\/2020\/03\/how-corona-virus-spreads-and-what-you.html\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-amp-style=\"font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span> <span data-amp-style=\"font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><b>Please help us grow by clicking the share button below and follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hippotechgroup\">Facebook<\/a>. Thanks<\/b><\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Regional Delegate of Public Health, for the Southwest Region of Cameroon, Dr Ebongo Zacheus Nanje speaking during an evaluation meeting on the pandemic COVID-19 in Buea chaired by the Governor of the region, reported that 13 cases have been confirmed in the area. Furthermore, Limbe has five confirmed cases, while Buea has seven and [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cameroon-info","category-health-tips"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hippotechgroup.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hippotechgroup.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hippotechgroup.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hippotechgroup.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hippotechgroup.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hippotechgroup.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"https:\/\/hippotechgroup.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hippotechgroup.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hippotechgroup.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hippotechgroup.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hippotechgroup.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}