Re: Jordan: Media report - MoH has declared a state of emergency due to increase of coronavirus MERS cases in neighboring Saudi Arabia - notice not on MoH site
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Ministry of Health declares emergency after new Eorna injuries and injuries to the Jordanians and the Gulf plan to monitor arrivals from these countries
Date: 04/25/2014 09:00:18
Ministry of Health declares emergency after new Eorna injuries and injuries to the Jordanians and the Gulf plan to monitor arrivals from these countries
Hardiness News - Jordan News:
The Ministry of Health officially WHO discovered injury ?CZK? to Saudi presented to Jordan and revealed his injury later in the Kingdom, bringing the number of injury to Jordan to three injuries, and raised the Ministry of Health of readiness after detecting injury last lifted the monitoring system to a state of emergency with the onset of summer and the start of the flow GCC nationals to Jordan, especially the Saudis, who have discovered the majority of injuries and deaths recorded the highest HIV infection.
And had been notified of the Organization for several cases of people infected in Saudi Arabia and the UAE have traveled to other countries, has informed all of Greece, Jordan, Malaysia, the Philippines, on the status of one of these cases, and so far have not been monitoring the further spreading of the virus in those countries, according to a statement distributed by the World Health Organization yesterday, made no secret of the World Health Organization concern the increasing number of cases of Corona virus that causes respiratory syndrome Middle East in recent weeks, particularly in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates after recording two cases of HIV in health care facilities.
The organization urged the relevant statement received hardiness News, a copy of which countries the Eastern Mediterranean Region to remain vigilant and to strengthen surveillance to detect any early indication that the virus Koruna has changed and reached the potential of causing infection continued from person to person, and confirmed that the organization he concerted efforts and enhanced between States alone enable unravel the mystery and danger to health associated with the emergence of this global virus. The Regional Director for the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region Dr Aladdin al-Alwan, according to the statement that about 75% of the reported cases are secondary cases, which means that the infection has moved to another case of cross-transmission of the virus from human to human.
He added that ?the majority of these cases, the secondary been infected within the health care facilities and mainly for those working in this area, although the number of patients infected are also infected while in hospital for other reasons?.
statement noted that although the majority of cases did not show symptoms or developed symptoms limited, and most of them non-persistent in spreading the virus, and the organization recognizes that some of the gaps in information remain important and turning without reaching a better understanding of the transmission of the virus and also the path of infection.
The organization said it is not aware of at the moment specific forms of exposure in health care facilities that led to the transmission, considering it as a cause for concern, and told the organization since the advent of AIDS Middle East respiratory in April since 2012, for a total 253 cases of human infection with this syndrome is uncertain laboratory, including 93 deaths have been reported from these cases in Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Tunisia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, the Philippines, and remains a source of the virus and the method of infection by the unknown.
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