12:09 am
Saturday 25 January 2020
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Books – Mohamed Ataya:
The new Corona virus has spread widely and widely around the world after it moved from the Chinese city of Wuhan to many points, causing dozens of deaths and hundreds of infections.
On Friday, the Chinese authorities closed more than a dozen cities located in the vicinity of the newly created Corona Virus Center, whose outcome rose again following the failure of the World Health Organization to declare an international health emergency.
The number of deaths due to the viral epidemic in China rose to 26 out of 830 cases, after this mysterious disease appeared in December in a wholesale market of seafood in Wuhan, central China.
Of the 830 cases, 177 are considered serious, according to the commission, while 34 people have “recovered” and have been discharged from hospital. More than a thousand people are suspected of being tested.
China, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Macao, Hong Kong, the United States, France, Singapore and Vietnam registered cases of the new virus.
The Chinese government summoned 40 military doctors to counter the outbreak of the “new Corona” virus.
A media report said that 40 military doctors began working in the central care unit of the Pulmonary Hospital in the central city.
The channel noted that Chinese local reports indicated that the forty officers are just an initial support squad, and more military doctors are scheduled to be sent from the General Hospital of the People’s Liberation Army in Beijing in the coming days.
The virus reaches Europe and reserves in Egypt
The new virus has reached Europe, after French Health Minister Anis Bouzin announced the first two cases of the new Corona virus, the first in Europe.
Posen added, in comments reported by “Reuters” agency, that there are likely to be more injuries.
With officials of the various entry points in the Red Sea (air, sea, and land) from airports and ports in cooperation with the quarantine departments, they took several precautionary measures within the plan of the Ministry of Health to face any danger of the transmission of the Corona virus through incoming passengers, in addition to following up on the previous decision to obligate all operators And the owners of ferries and ships to transport passengers and pilgrims who work in the ports of the authority and Saudi ports to allocate a doctor on board each phrase and establish a medical clinic and provide it with drugs and medical supplies to conduct a medical examination and follow up the condition of passengers and pilgrims returning during the cruise from Mina Sailing to the port of arrival.
The Red Sea Health Directorate has received instructions from the preventive medicine sector to activate procedures for monitoring acute respiratory diseases, raising awareness and debating all travelers coming from the areas where the disease appeared, and the use of immediate isolation of any suspected disease, and a circular has been circulated to all health facilities containing a definition Cases and handling, and preventive measures for medical providers.
And the Egyptian Ministry of Health called in an official statement titled “very important”, the necessity of investigating the medical history of any condition suffering from symptoms similar to the emerging corona disease, or respiratory symptoms that have a travel history to China, especially to Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
The circular included activating procedures for monitoring acute respiratory diseases, raising awareness and debating all travelers coming from the areas where the disease appeared, and using immediate isolation for any suspected disease, and a circular was circulated to all health facilities that includes the definition of cases and dealing with them, and preventive measures for service providers Medical.
Withdraw the diplomats
The United States has withdrawn its consulate staff and family members from the Chinese city of Wuhan, as the new coronavirus has spread to it.
The US authorities have issued an order due to the rapid spread of the new virus, logistical problems caused by the closure of the public road network, and the city’s “overcrowded” hospitals with patients, said a spokesman for the US embassy in Beijing.
Today, Friday, the Russian authorities asked their citizens to avoid traveling to China except in cases of necessity, and to be careful to avoid infection with the new Coronavirus, which the Chinese authorities have announced in the country.
“We advise tourists from Russia to be vigilant in China because of the new Corona virus,” which was first monitored in Wuhan, China, the Russian Federal Authority for the Protection of Consumer Rights and Human Welfare (“Rosspotribnadzor”) said in a statement.
The symptoms of Corona’s disease are high fever, difficulty breathing, and sore throat, noting that it affects the elderly, chronic disease sufferers and those who suffer from immunodeficiency.
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