Mohamed Awad Tag Eddin, the country’s health and prevention adviser, has frightened Egyptians and tourism with “new mutations in the coronavirus” that may occur in the coming days. According to him, “new mutations are considered as new viruses, not related to the previous ones.” The Egyptian tourism industry, which hopes to recover from the pandemic – including in connection with the massive return of Ukrainian and Russian tourism – has welcomed the statement.
Not surprisingly, becoming the “homeland” of a new strain is an inevitable risk of closure, and if that happens in Egypt, the resumption of tourism will be cut short before birth. Although the official did not threaten this and did without general words. Including the fact that vaccines and drugs are likely to be effective against new “mutants”.
“Omicron and Delta are now common in all countries of the world. Vaccines have so far been effective against these mutants, reducing the severity of cases, “the official said.
Meanwhile, Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population on Monday reported 2,272 new cases of coronavirus, 57 deaths and 2,147 recoveries. Against the background of the same Turkish – and Russian – figures, where the number of daily cases exceeded a hundred, the figures do not look scary. However, on January 26, the Ministry of Health issued a call to all hospitals in Cairo to postpone any non-emergency medical operations for two weeks, unless it affects the patient’s health due to the high capacity of intensive care units in most provinces exceeding 70% capacity. The Ministry of Health has also instructed to turn many hospitals into “covidaria” and increase the number of beds in wards and intensive care units for patients with coronavirus to at least 50%. Whatever you say, the signal is serious.
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