Media report: Egyptians urged not to travel to Saudi Arabia over fears of deadly MERS virus

[Shiloh]

Source: http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsCon...urged-not-to-travel-to-Saudi-Arabia-over.aspx

Egyptians urged not to travel to Saudi Arabia over fears of deadly MERS virus
Health ministry issues warning against religious pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia, along with all other travel, as worry mounts over regional spread of MERS
Ahram Online, Wednesday 30 Apr 2014

Egypt's health ministry has issued a warning against travel to Saudi Arabia for religious pilgrimages in order to minimise the spread of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS), Al-Ahram's Arabic news website reported.

The ministry also called on Egyptian citizens to postpone all travel this year in an attempt to minimise the transmission of the virus.

The warning targeted those under 15-years-old, the elderly, pregnant women and others with chronic diseases ? all of whom are most susceptible to the virus.

On Tuesday, Health Minister Adel El-Adawi said that there were six suspected (MERS) cases in Egypt, with only one confirmed case currently being hospitalised...

 

[sharon sanders]

Re: Egyptians urged not to travel to Saudi Arabia over fears of deadly MERS virus

Re: Egyptians urged not to travel to Saudi Arabia over fears of deadly MERS virus

I can not find this announcement on the Ministry of Health website. But the format is new so.....??

 

[sharon sanders]

Re: Media report: Egyptians urged not to travel to Saudi Arabia over fears of deadly MERS virus

machine translation

Supreme Committee for the Corona virus: recommend postponing perform Hajj or Umrah this year

Thursday, May 1st, 2014 10:59
Supreme Committee for the Corona virus: recommend postponing perform Hajj or Umrah this year
Started Shaima Faraj

Advised Dr. Nasser Abdo, a member of the Supreme Committee of the flu virus, and Corona, the next two citizens to perform the Hajj or Umra, to postpone perform the Hajj this year, after the spread of HIV Coruna on a large scale in Saudi Arabia.
Said Abdo - through intervention telephone conversation with the media we have Yahya program "voice of the people" on TV "axis" - "I am personally canceled the pilgrimage this year for fear of the virus Corona," noting that the rate of HIV infection in Saudi Arabia, exceeded the 10 cases a day.
explained that the seriousness of the virus Corona is that he has no symptoms in children; making them carriers of the virus easily, and the World Health Organization is not advised not to travel so far.
Abdo added that the Ministry of Health appealed Engineer Ibrahim Mahlab, Prime Minister, at a meeting of the Council of Ministers last , to take preventive measures to tackle the disease, by importing the treatment to purify the air and kill the virus in the air.

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