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Judging by the number of re-tweets, there’s a bit of celebration on twitter today – possibly premature – over a story appearing in El Ahram. Dr Ala Din Alwan - Director of the Eastern Mediterranean Region, World Health Organization - is quoted saying that Saudi officials had successfully prevented the transmission of the MERS coronavirus to the 1.5 million Hajj pilgrims who are now headed home.
While I certainly hope he is right, given a 10-day plus incubation period of this coronavirus and its ability to infect asymptomatically, we really don’t know how successful the Saudi’s were in preventing transmission.
If in three or four weeks, new cases haven’t popped outside of Saudi Arabia, then I will be far more convinced.
You can read the machine translated article at the link below:
Said Dr Ala Din Alwan, director of the Eastern Mediterranean Region, World Health Organization (WHO) that the Saudi authorities succeeded in preventing the spread of epidemics and viruses private Coruna center of more than 1.5 million pilgrims during the Hajj season.
The announcement came ahead of Alwan leave Cairo on Saturday on his way to Amman to participate in some activities of the regional organization.
