The Ministry of Health and Population of Egypt and the World Health Organization announced today, Friday, the discovery of the first positive case of emerging coronavirus, inside the country for a foreigner.
The Advisor to the Minister of Health and Population for Media Affairs, and the Ministry's spokesperson, Dr. Khaled Mujahid, explained that the ministry succeeded in discovering the first case of a foreign person infected with Corona virus, thanks to the preventive precaution plan implemented by the ministry by activating the electronic program to record and follow up on arrivals from countries that have been infected with HIV Corona emerging, and through the preventive teams that follow them around the clock, indicating that laboratory analyzes of the suspected case that had positive results for the virus, but without any disease symptoms.
Mujahid added that the WHO was immediately informed, and all preventive measures and measures of the case were taken in cooperation with the World Health Organization, where the case was transferred to a self-sterilized ambulance to the hospital for isolation, follow-up, and reassurance, explaining that the condition is HIV-positive and does not appear on it No symptoms, and his condition is completely stable.
He said that the Ministry has taken strict preventive measures against those in contact with the situation through conducting the necessary analyzes that were negative for the virus, as they were self-isolated in their places of residence as a precautionary measure for a period of 14 days "incubation period of the disease", pointing to their follow-up periodically every 8 hours, and giving them health instructions due Followers, as was the sterilization of the building in which the case was located and who had contact with it.