Six More Recover from COVID-19, Says Khater
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I most of which is providing security THE Director-General of the World breyesus said he had a fruitful com- congratulated her for HH the Amir and protection to them against the Health Organization (WHO) has munication with Qatar’s Minister of of Qatar’s leadership to contain COVID-19), to ensure that they lead commended the directives of the Public Health HE Hanan Mohamed #coronavirus & efforts to implement a normal life. Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Kuwari. The WHO chief congrat- a comprehensive approach to sup- The Amir also directed a stimu- al Thani to contain the emerging ulated Kuwari on the Amir’s man- press and control #COVID19,” Dr lus package for the economic and fi- coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. agement of the crisis and the efforts Tedros said in a tweet. nancial sector to reduce the effects of Praising Qatar’s efforts to im- made to implement a comprehen- Days ago, the Amir directed state the coronavirus. Health minister pays visit to Six more recover from COVID-19 warriors COVID-19, says Khater TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK not mean that the mentioned forms DOHA ● Eight more test of transmission will not change, but positive for virus, total this is what has been monitored IN a positive news in the battle so far, and it requires, especially against coronavirus (COVID-19), cases reach 460 among those coming from abroad, a six patients -- four expats and two lot of responsibility and precaution Qatari citizens, recovered from the ● Six patients in ICU in order to preserve themselves in virus in Qatar on Thursday, taking the first place and to preserve their the total number of recoveries to 10. ● MoPH approves family members as well.” This was announced by HE home quarantine She said the coming period is Lolwah al Khater, Spokesperson of for returnee citizens very critical for breaking these tran- THE coronavirus ‘contact tracers’, who carry out the critical and difficult the Supreme Committee for Crisis sitional chains, and it requires every- job of tracking down people at the risk of contracting COVID-19 , got a Management, at a press conference provided they pledge one’s solidarity and self-monitoring. shot in the arm when Minister of Public Health HE Dr Hanan Mohamed al in Doha on Thursday. to remain under Khater said the Ministry of Pub- Kuwari visited their operations room on Thursday. Eight more people - six expatri- self-isolation lic Health has approved home quar- The COVID-19 Surveillance Unit’s job is critical to containing the ates and two Qataris -- tested posi- HE Lolwah al Khater antine as a second option for fami- spread of the pandemic in Qatar as its team members trace all those tive for COVID-19, taking the total lies coming from abroad who prefer who have had prolonged physical contact with or stayed in the same place number of cases to 460 in the coun- announced soon. there are two basic patterns in the this in special circumstances, pro- with positive patients. The Surveillance Unit, based out of the Ministry of try. The two infected Qatari citizens Since the beginning of the cri- spread of the virus so far. The first vided the symptoms of the disease Public Health, has been monitoring the epidemiological situation since the returned from Italy and the UK. sis, she said, Qatar has pursued the chain of transmission was among are not apparent to them, and that outbreak of COVID-19 in China earlier this year. (TNN) Khater said all the infected pa- principle of transparency in sharing expatriates, which is considered they pass the initial medical exami- tients have been subjected to quar- all information regarding the virus community spread. It has found nation. They are required to sign a antine. and the state will continue to do so. that it was concentrated in the area formal commitment to adhere to “Most of the patients are in a She called on the people to re- that was closed from Street 1 to 32 the procedures approved by the rel- stable health condition. However, frain from circulating false news in the Industrial Area.” evant international institutions and six patients are in intensive care,” and rumours. She urged the public “The second chain of transmis- the Ministry of Public Health. MoPH kicks off campaign to she said. to get the news from official sources sion exists among Qataris and that Khater said if they fail to com- In a move to make it easy for the such as the accounts of the Govern- is not considered to be community ply with it then they will be liable encourage self-isolation needy, Khater said, the Supreme ment Communications Office and spread. It was among returning citi- for legal procedures, indicating that Committee for Crisis Management the Ministry of Public Health. zens from some countries, especial- many countries have implemented has decided to allocate hotlines to Shedding light on the patterns ly Europe, who have been subjected this policy. receive suggestions and complaints of virus spread in Qatar, Khater to quarantine.” from people. The hotlines will be said, “From what we found in Qatar, Khater explained that this does Continued on page 2 MoCI asks sales outlets to take QC steps up efforts to ensure precautionary measures food supply to Industrial Area THE Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) has asked sales outlets QATAR Chamber’s Food Security and Environment Committee on Wednes- in the country to take a set of precautionary health requirements for the day discussed mechanisms to ensure uninterrupted flow of food supplies safety of citizens and residents in the wake of coronavirus (COVID-19) to the Industrial Area which was recently closed in light of the efforts exert- The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has started a StayHome campaign on disease. All consumer complexes and sales outlets signed a pledge to ad- ed to curb coronavirus. The meeting reviewed all developments concerning social media to encourage people to exercise self-isolation or social distanc- here to the precautionary requirements by taking employees’ temperature the environmental procedures toward the process of food circulation in the ing. The campaign uses a series of photographs of medical practitioners and twice daily, providing sterilisers at the main entrances, gathering places light of the partial closure of the industrial zone for 14 days. The meeting others at the forefront of the coronavirus fight in Qatar. In the photos, they and toilets, and sanitising shopping carts before they are used by shop- also touched on the mechanisms to facilitate the flow of supplies from are seen holding posters with exhortations to the general public to stay at pers, as well as sanitising surfaces continuously such as refrigerators’ ports to the closed zone, and then from the Industrial Area to safeguard home. “We are at work for you. Please stay home for us,” the posters read in doors and doorknobs. (TNN) PAGE 2 the interests of merchants and consumers. (TNN) PAGE 7 different languages. (TNN) COVID-19 vaccine trial begins: WHO China sees no new local COVID-19 cases AGENCIES While the trial is a milestone, health together “to systemically evaluate experi- IN a sign of hope, China has reported no city late last year, before spreading around GENEVA officials say it will take at least 12 to 18 mental therapeutics”. new domestic transmissions of coronavirus the world. While the Asian nations that were months for a vaccine to be available for “Multiple small trials with different (COVID-19) for the first time since the virus first affected appeared to have come through THE first vaccine trial for Covid-19 has be- public use. methodologies may not give us the clear, outbreak. the worst of it, there are now concerns about gun, the World Health Organization (WHO) At the virtual news conference held strong evidence we need about which China’s national health commission said a second wave of infections, driven by people head has said. at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, he treatments help to save lives,” he said. on Thursday there were 34 new cases, but all returning from overseas. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said said more than 200,000 cases of the vi- It was for this reason that the WHO were recent overseas arrivals. Across the planet, the death toll from the vi- the trial began “just 60 days after the rus have been confirmed and over 8,000 and its partners were organising a study In Hubei, the Chinese province where the rus whose main symptoms are a dry cough and genetic sequence of the virus was shared deaths reported worldwide.