Introduction
Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is an infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In January 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 virus was identified as the causative agent of an outbreak in China. The disease rapidly disseminated globally, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare it a pandemic in March 2020.1
As of March 2022, the global tally of cases stands at over 445 million, with 6 million deaths reported. Of these, over 327 million cases (74%) have been reported in the WHO surveillance database, of which 255 million (57%) are disaggregated by age and sex.1,2
The initial case of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was identified on 10 March 2020, involving an individual who had recently travelled from…