On Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the conclusion of its technical task in Egypt over the novel coronavirus "COVID 19", hailing the serious work being done by the Egyptian medical workers to control the outbreak of the virus.
On its Twitter account, the WHO said, "In light of reports related to the transmission of infection in Egypt, there is a critical opportunity to effectively control the spread of the disease and prevent its local transmission."
The UN-based organization also said that it has not detected any significant changes in the virus's level of aggression although it has spread to various regions of the world.
The WHO official spokesman Tarik Jašarević, in interview today with the Russian Novosti news agency, he said that they didn't have clear evidence that the impact of the virus on people varies by region, adding that every country has its own measures that depend on its health care systems' ability to deal with matter.
So far, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University, the world has recorded more than 21,000 deaths and more than 472,000 infected cases of coronavirus.
Egypt’s measures to battle Coronavirus
Egypt imposed a nationwide 11-hour curfew from 7:00 pm to 6:00 am starting yesterday for two weeks.
The country has so far registered 465 coronavirus cases, including 21 deaths.
Egypt’s health ministry has stepped up precautionary measures in the affected governorates and intensified campaigns to spread awareness about infectious diseases.
It also raises its preparedness at all the country’s ports and airports to monitor the virus developments, receiving inquires from citizens about the virus through its hotline 105 or 15335.
Egypt President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has allocated L.E. 100 billion to fund the anti-Coronavirus strategy and its related precautionary measures.
WHO declared Coronavirus global pandemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus a global pandemic as the new virus has rapidly spread to more than 121,000 people from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.
According to the organization, the number of COVID-19 infections outside China has doubled in the past two weeks, and the number of countries hit by the epidemic has tripled.
“We are very concerned to achieve the alarming levels of the outbreak and its severity, as well as the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in Geneva.
More cases of the virus, which causes respiratory disease Covid-19, continue to emerge, with outbreaks in South Korea, Italy, and Iran.
Transmission of virus between humans happens when someone comes into contact with an infected person’s secretions, such as droplets in a cough.
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