Dr. Mahmud Alam El-Din, spokesman of Cairo University, has announced that Dean of Dentistry Faculty at the university was Infected with the Coronavirus (COVID-19).
He added that the dean was diagnosed with the disease after symptoms appeared on him and the results of examination were positive. People who dealt with the infected dean were identified by the Committee of Fighting the Infection.
The suspects with the infection were 17 persons of the staff and medical crews at the faculty.
The committee did not define how the dean and his companions were infected with the Coronavirus so far as the dentists frequent to many places outside the faculty.
Dr. Alam El-Din added that the management of Cairo University decided to lock down the main headquarters and premises of Faculty of Dentistry for 14 days, pointing out that the buildings house offices and some hospitals. But the other services were presented in the appendices buildings in the faculty.
Dr. Alam El-Din revealed that all buildings of the faculty were sterilized completely such as office of the dean, the secretariat offices, hall of the Council of the Faculty, all offices, hospitals, WCs, stairs and the elevators. The sterilization will be repeated intensively and periodically within 14 days.
The spokesman of Cairo University unveiled that hospitals of Kasr El-Ainey were informed on names of suspects of infection with the Coronavirus lest one of them was positively infected. If any one was infected, he will be transferred to the French Hospital, which was allotted by Cairo University to quarantine its staff.
On the other hand, Dr. Azza Ezz El Arab, deputy-dean of Dentistry Faculty, pointed out that all preventive measurements were taken against the suspects of infected with the Coronavirus.
All suspected were isolated for 14 days and they will be followed up thoroughly over this period.
Dr. Ezz El Arab affirmed that the suspected building at the faculty is a special case; meanwhile the sick people receive treatment at an independent building away of the plagued building.
Contributed by Ahmed Moamar
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