Walid Abdel Salam wrote Friday, August 25, 2023 02:00 PM The Ministry of Health and Population revealed details of a surveillance map The new variant of Corona In various governorates at the level of the Republic, in order to monitor the mutant and deal with it quickly.
Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, said: The preventive medicine sector in the Ministry of Health and Population implements an accurate system for monitoring acute respiratory diseases at the level of the Republic with the aim of early detection of disease causes and knowing any changes in the factors of infection, through several programs, including surveillance. routine.
Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar continued: The surveillance system for epidemic diseases, such as the new variant of Corona, is being applied in 450 hospitals nationwide, where cases of influenza-like diseases, acute respiratory diseases, and pneumonia are reported periodically and regularly.
Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar indicated that throat and nose swabs are taken from cases that meet the definition of the case, and an examination is performed for influenza, Covid-19, and the mixed respiratory virus for all samples.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population confirmed that surveillance systems have been activated in all air, sea and land ports to investigate the infection of any of the arrivals to Egypt with the new variants. Additional and medical recommendations.
For his part, Dr. Amr Kandil, Assistant Minister of Health for Preventive Medicine Affairs at the Ministry of Health and Population, said that the ministry is implementing programs to monitor selected sites in several hospitals geographically distributed in the Arab Republic of Egypt, including monitoring influenza-like diseases in outpatient clinics and is applied in 12 medical facilities, and monitoring Acute respiratory diseases for patients confined in the internal departments, and it is applied in 17 medical facilities, where throat and nose swab samples are taken, and examinations for influenza, Covid-19, and respiratory syncytial virus are performed for all samples on a regular basis.
He added: It is still the vaccination with enhanced doses, especially for groups most affected by the disease, such as the elderly and those with chronic diseases and diseases that affect the response of the immune system of the body, continuous disinfection of hands and surfaces, and the use of masks in crowded or poorly ventilated places, and for those with respiratory symptoms, and avoid mixing with non-infected people, and good nutrition.
Details of the spread of the new Omicron mutant, EG5, were revealed in 51 countries on May 5, 2023, as the World Health Organization announced the end of the public emergency associated with Corona.
And he continued: About 15 days ago, the World Health Organization announced that there is a new interesting mutant, but it does not seem to pose a threat to public health more than other mutants.
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