The death of a citizen Corona virus in Qassim
Riyadh - SPA Ministry of Health announced on the status of the death of the Corona virus of a citizen of one of the hospitals in the Qassim region, pointing out that even when the situation suspected samples were taken and examined Kingdom laboratories also been sent to a European reference laboratories and the result was positive for the new corona virus. The Health Ministry said in a statement, "It has all the precautionary measures by routers scientific local and international contacts of sampling them to see if there have been cases, including where it is this case is the case number (14) globally and No. (7) locally." The ministry showed that this announcement comes in the framework of transparency pursued by the Ministry of Health in dealing with all the media and the desire to inform the citizens and residents of the new information or health and epidemiology of infectious diseases that may constitute a concern in the community.The ministry has shown it shall inform WHO of any case arise, according to the system of the International Health Regulations 2005 and the Kingdom is committed to do so. The statement pointed out in this context that the National Scientific Committee for Infectious Diseases, whose membership includes some of the consultants and specialists from all sectors of government health confirmed that the virus Koruna is a virus that infects the respiratory tract, where more than 15% of the influenza viruses that infect humans which is a new typeand can be transmitted from one person to another in cases of rare and limited so it does not constitute a public health concern. The statement said: The National Scientific Committee endorsed what the ministry of precautionary measures and preventive follow-up to this virus, including the continuation of the ministry in the adoption of policies and guidelines the World Health Organization in dealing with the virus and announced. The ministry said at the conclusion of its statement that it will notify the World Health Organization in any case arise and examine all cases that meet the definition of the situation, and will be announced cases in all media in the event of a reason to do so or an outbreak - God forbid -. Added on Thursday 07/03/201