Egypt welcomes 114 Chinese and Taiwan tourists to discover the "Corona" case coming from Cairo
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Egypt welcomes 114 Chinese and Taiwan tourists to discover the "Corona" case coming from Cairo |
Egypt has received a plane carrying 114 Chinese tourists, despite the embargo imposed by countries of the world on China and entry to those arriving because of the outbreak of the Corona virus, the new, according to the Associated Press.
The agency quoted unnamed officials as saying that Egypt had received a plane carrying 114 Chinese tourists, despite the fact that the Egyptian airline had stopped its flights to China.
The officials added that the tourists did not show any symptoms of the disease and would be subject to surveillance during their week-long vacation in Egypt.
Taiwan also announced the discovery of five new cases of coronavirus, Saturday, including four people who had contact with a hospital and a woman returning from the Middle East, bringing the total number of cases to 39.
The main epidemiological center said that three nurses and a staff member were infected with the hospital, which is treating an HIV case.
He added that the nurses participated in the treatment of the patient before confirming their injury.
He added that the fifth case of a woman in the sixties was on a tourist tour in Egypt and Dubai and returned to Taiwan on February 21 and had started to feel exhausted during her visit to Egypt on February 20.
The center said it was highly likely that she would have been infected outside the country, adding that the government was monitoring everyone who was with her in the same round.
A Canadian Health Ministry official had said, on Friday, that a man in his eighties, who had recently arrived from Egypt, had been confirmed with the emerging coronavirus, marking the eighth case in the province of Ontario.
According to Canadian news network CBS, the man who came from Egypt on February 20 entered the emergency department of a district hospital, noting that he was in good health.
This came after French Health Minister Olivier Ferrand announced on Friday that the cases of new Corona virus infection for French citizens returning from Egypt rose from 2 to 6 in one night.
For its part, the Egyptian authorities again denied reports that cases of Coronavirus were detected in the country.
A statement of the Egyptian Cabinet said, "It is not correct to discover any new cases infected with Corona virus in Egypt at the present time, and it is completely free of any infections ... In case of suspicion of any cases of the virus, it will be announced and inform the World Health Organization immediately."
The Kuwaiti Ministry of Health said in a press conference today, Saturday, that it is studying with the World Health Organization the need to take additional preventive measures for those coming from Egypt.
Both the Ministry of Health in Egypt and the World Health Organization announced, on Thursday, that the only case infected with corona virus inside the country had been recovered and that a foreign person had been discharged from the hospital after confirming the negative results of his laboratory results and that he spent the incubation period of the virus.
Source: Al-Jazeera Mubasher, Reuters
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