Prevention Measures: MoHS Accelerates Responses To Outbreak Of Coronavirus

The Ministry of Health and Sports announced on Wednesday that the Ministry is accelerating its responses to the outbreak of pneumonia caused by 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019 nCoV) in Wuhan City of China.

It is learnt that death from this virus rose to 17 as of Wednesday, and according to report, they were old and fragile persons with other chronic diseases.

The Ministry is strictly monitoring the symptoms of fever and flu at the State/Regional Public Health Departments, airports, Jetties, border crossings, especially at the border gates close to China.

The Ministry also urged the public to follow the instructions for precaution measures such as to stay away from people with the symptoms of respiratory illness, to avoid crowded places, to wear mask and to keep personal hygiene. The Ministry also issued the travel advice for domestic foreign trvellers.

According to the report of World Health Organization dated on 21 January, a total of 278 patients were diagnosed with 2019 nCoV, 51 cases are severely ill and 12 are in critical condition.

The laboratory tests outside China up to 22 January have found 2 cases in Thailand, 1 in Japan, 1 in South Korea and 1 in the United States.

The WHO is holding a meeting of International Health Regulations IHR) Emergency Committee for Pneumonia on 22 January 2020 in accordance with the International Health Regulations (2005), and said it will decide today whether to declare a global emergency over the outbreak of a new flu-like virus spreading in and beyond China.

It also confirmed that the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is the same virus species of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and primarily announced it is the outbreak of Limited Human-to-Human Transmission.