Emergencies and crises announce the return of sporting activity in the country

The UAE government held the periodic media briefing on developments and cases related to the emerging corona virus in the country "Covid-19", during which it announced the resumption of sports activity competitions in the country and various competitions, with specific procedures and controls that ensure limiting the spread of the new Corona virus.

In detail, the spokesperson for the briefing, Dr. Omar Al-Hammadi, reviewed some statistics and numbers of the latest developments in the health situation within 7 days, from September 23 to yesterday, "Tuesday", indicating that 6 thousand and 643 positive cases were discovered out of a total of 668 thousand and 377 examinations during this period, i.e. Equivalent to 1% of the total examinations, compared to a rate of 0.8% for the previous week, indicating that males made up 62% of the total cases discovered, and females 38%, while 58% of the detected cases ranged between 25 to 44 years old.  

He said, "The death rate increased during the past 7 days from 0.1% to 0.3%, which is less than 1%, while the death rate in various countries of the world reached 8%," indicating the need to tighten the application of precautionary measures at the level of individuals and institutions with The recent rise in the number of injuries

Al-Hammadi explained that the person in contact is the person who had contact with a person infected with the virus for a distance of less than two meters for a period of not less than 15 minutes, and that the process of tracking contacts is not easy, and those in contact with categories of chronic diseases that may be exposed to serious complications in the event of transmission of infection are tracked, indicating that in In the event that the symptoms do not appear on the infected person, contact is counted two days before the examination of the infected person, and the person in contact is advised to isolate for two weeks even if he does not exhibit symptoms or gets a negative result for testing the virus.

For his part, the spokesperson from the National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority, Dr. Saif Al Dhaheri, announced the resumption of sports activity in the country, and specific procedures and controls to prevent the spread of the virus, stressing that protocols and guidelines have been developed to ensure the safe return of sporting activities based on studying the data and looking into International best practices under the supervision of medical teams and contact points managed by sports federations.

Al Dhaheri reviewed some statistics on violations of the precautionary measures in the UAE during a two-week period from 1 to 15 September, indicating that 24 thousand and 894 violations were monitored in various regions of the country, where the violation of wearing a mask was the most violation that was monitored, followed by the violation of non-compliance with the number of persons permitted In one car.

He said, "The most violations were detected in the emirate of Dubai, followed by Abu Dhabi, then Sharjah, Ajman, the Emirate of Fujairah, Umm al-Quwain and Ras al-Khaimah, and the Asian nationality came as the most violating nationality by 81%, followed by Arab nationality by 19%," stressing that no Nobody is above the law, and that the law will be firmly applied to all.

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