Saudi Arabia - MoH announcement of coronavirus MERS outbreak in King Saud Medical City, Riyadh - June 4, 2017 + more hospitals....

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June 4, 2017
[COLOR=#305B76 !important]a journalist for the registration of cases of Corona King Saud Medical City in a statement[/COLOR]


09 Ramadan 1438 Continuing to follow-up and epidemiological investigation command center has been declared and the Ministry of Health to control the registration of a number of cases of infection with Corona at King Saud Medical City in Riyadh included 3 virus infections Korona almspb syndrome Middle East respiratory plus 4 positive samples Mkhaltin health workers without symptoms has been confirmed these results in the regional laboratory of the Ministry of Health. Where after tracking the initial state it has turned out to be previewed in a private hospital and there was a delay in the application of isolation and suspicion, and accordingly the procedures have been applied precautionary closure on this facility and will be applied by the statutory procedures

The center said that there is still a number of contacts from inpatients and health workers under surveillance and two weeks from the date of the last exposure to infection continue.

In the same vein, King Saud Medical City, carried out in coordination with the Health Affairs in Riyadh and the General Directorate for Infection Control in the ministry a number of procedures followed in such a case to assess compliance with infection control and personal protection tools procedures included the inventory of contacts and follow-up in coordination with public health teams and response team quick command center and control the health of Riyadh.


Health and re-emphasize the importance of taking precautions and caution and raise the degree of readiness in all public and private health facilities and the need for strict adherence to screening procedures and respiratory isolation and ease pressure on emergency departments by directing non-emergency cases to primary health care clinics.

http://www.moh.gov.sa/Ministry/MediaCenter/News/Pages/News-2017-06-04-004.aspx

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These are the recent Riyadh (non-camel contact) cases including 4 health care workers. Infection source for one case is under investigation:



#1995 - Male, 52, Saudi, stable, originally Jeddah, now Riyadh?, nosocomial, visitor, Saudi Arabia (Index case for Riyadh hospital outbreak?)

#1996 - Female, 30, Expat, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#1997 - Female, 33, Expat, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#1998 - Female, 30, Expat, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#1999 - Male, 65, Expat, died, nosocomial, patient, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Death

#2000 - Male, 46, Saudi, critical, infection source under investigation, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2002 - Male, 46, Expat, stable, nosocomial, patient, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2003 - Male, 27, Saudi, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

 

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4 more cases announced today:



#2005 - Female, 66, Saudi, stable, household contact, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2006 - Male, 29, Expat, stable, nosocomial, patient, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2007 - Female, 32, Expat, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2008 - Male, 27, Expat, critical, nosocomial, patient, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

 

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#2000 - Male, 46, Saudi, critical, infection source under investigation, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

The above case might be the index case for this outbreak. Hopefully WHO will clarify the situation.

 

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7 more Riyadh cluster cases announced in last 2 days:



#2010 - Male, 84, Saudi, stable, nosocomial, patient, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2011 - Male, 48, Saudi, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2012 - Female, 35, Saudi, stable, household contact, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2013 - Female, 42, Expat, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2014 - Female, 45, Expat, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2015 - Female, 57, Saudi, stable, nosocomial, patient, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2016 - Male, 39, Expat, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

 

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more cases today:


#2019 - Female, 30, Expat, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2020 - Female, 31, Expat, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2021 - Male, 25, Saudi, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2022 - Male, 58, Expat, stable, nosocomial, patient, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2023 - Male, 48, Expat, stable, nosocomial, patient, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

 

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CIDRAP is reporting today that there are more than one hospital involved in this outbreak. link


Also please see:

Saudi Arabia - King Salman Hospital in Riyadh issues urgent mandate reducing visiting time to 1 hour due to coronavirus MERS fears - June 7, 2017

 

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orona "causes the closure of a government hospital in Riyadh"





Riyadh - reproach Nour | Wednesday 07/06/2017

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Reducing the time of the visit at the King Salman Hospital​

Speech King Saud Medical City to Emergency Management​

King Saud Medical City​

Raise the degree of readiness in all public and private health facilities.​

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It seems that "Corona" disease returned this time to appear in the Riyadh government hospitals strongly, as reluctant news circulating through social networking about the existence of 80 cases in King Saud Medical City, and the death of eight nurses, and the closure of the hospital by the Ministry of Health emergency forces as a preventive measure with referral sites critical to the intensive care unit and isolation sections, while the rest of the patients were referred to other hospitals in Riyadh.

While the Ministry of Health has denied the closure of King Saud Medical City, King Saud Medical City implemented earlier, and in coordination with the Health Affairs in Riyadh region and public administration to combat infection in the ministry, a number of procedures followed in such a case to assess compliance with infection control procedures tools and personal protection, including: inventory contacts and follow - up in coordination with public health teams and the rapid response team in the command and control center of Riyadh 's health.
The re health stress the importance of taking precautions, raising the degree of readiness in all public and private health facilities, and the need for strict adherence to screening procedures and isolation of the respiratory, relieve pressure on emergency departments by directing non - emergency primary health care clinics.
This is at a time when King Saud Medical City stopped the visit temporarily to the intensive care unit and sections of insulation, and demanded that the number of visitors does not increase the patient for two people, as advised to have the symptoms of colds and flu not to visit patients with reduced hours visit from four o'clock to six in the evening, so to ensure the safety of inpatients, and spared the risk of infection from viruses.
On the other hand, it reduced the King Salman Hospital visiting hours to one hour as a precaution after the increase in cases of patients, and that the visit is limited Alyalogarb only first class.

http://www.sayidaty.net/node/576726/...8A%D8%A7%D8%B6

 

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and 6 more cases.....


#2024 - Female, 26, Expat, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2025 - Female, 28, Expat, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2026 - Female, 31, Expat, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2027 - Female, 34, Expat, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2028 - Female, 48, Expat, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2029 - Female, 27, Expat, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

 

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a death...

#2030 - Male, 32, Saudi, died, nosocomial, patient, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Death

 

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5 more today....all health care workers....


#2031 - Male, 35, Expat, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2032 - Male, 57, Expat, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2033 - Female, 42, Expat, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2034 - Female, 54, Expat, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2035 - Male, 39, Expat, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

 

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today:

#2036 - Female, 45, Expat, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

 

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2 more cases on June 13:

#2037 - Female, 53, Expat, stable, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2038 - Male, 58, Saudi, stable, nosocomial, patient, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

 

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June 14 and June 15:

#2039 - Female, 70, Saudi, critical, nosocomial, patient, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

(#2040, #2041 are 2 cases not proven to be related to outbreak)

#2042 - Male, 20, Saudi, critical, nosocomial, patient, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2043 - Male, 79, Saudi, stable, nosocomial, patient, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#2044 - Male, 67, Expat, critical, nosocomial, patient, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

 

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June 16:

#2045 - Male, 68, Expat, died, nosocomial, patient, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Death

 

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June 17:

#2046 - Female, 41, Expat, nosocomial, health care worker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia