Egypt - High state of alert at 2 ports on Red Sea to screen for coronavirus MERS from Gulf states

[sharon sanders]

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Emergency ports of Safaga and Nuweiba to face the Corona virus
4/27/2014 10:38:00 AM

Emergency ports of Safaga and Nuweiba to face the Corona virus
Port Safaga

Suez - Ashraf Diab:

Announced the Red Sea Ports Authority in Suez, on Sunday, raising the high state of alert and Safaga ports of Nuweiba, to face the Corona virus, by examining returning from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states through the two ports.

Maj. Gen. Hassan Falah, head of the Commission, today in a press statement, said he was forming a committee of quarantine those ports and management of the Authority, to meet the detection of any cases of suspected of being infected, within employment returning during the summer season, and provide a number of ambulances in coordination with the Ministry of Health

http://www.masrawy.com/news/regions/2014/April/27/5886621.aspx

 

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Egypt: Safaga Port examines pilgrims from Saudi Arabia after MERS-CoV case detected

Egypt: Safaga Port examines pilgrims from Saudi Arabia after MERS-CoV case detected

Source: http://thecairopost.com/news/107962...rom-saudi-arabia-after-mers-cov-case-detected

Safaga Port examines pilgrims from Saudi Arabia after MERS-CoV case detected
Apr. 26, 2014 18:00
By THE CAIRO POST

CAIRO: Authorities in the Red Sea governorate?s Safaga Port tightened efforts in a medical quarantine to examine passengers and pilgrims coming from Saudi Arabia, after a case of the coronavirus was detected at Cairo International Airport, reported Youm7 Saturday.

A confirmed case of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) case was detected Thursday, according to Al-Masry al-Youm, who quoted State TV Saturday.

The patient was being kept at the Abbasiya Fever Hospital, added State TV...