WHO confirms a total of nine confirmed cases of coronavirus COVID-19 in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
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he World Health Organization announces a total of nine confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Eastern Mediterranean Region as of 16 February 2020.
Nine cases were reported in by the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Health and Prevention between 29 January and 9 February, and one case was reported by the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population on 14 February.
The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention has reported that three COVID-2019 cases have fully recovered and were released from hospital on 9 and 14 February. The latest case, a 37-year-old Chinese man, is in a stable condition according to the Ministry of Health and Prevention of the UAE.
The confirmed case in Egypt is asymptomatic and was identified through contact screening of an Index case who travelled to Cairo between 21 January and 4 February on a business trip and tested positive for COVID-19 on 11 February in China. The confirmed case in Egypt is currently isolated in a referral hospital. Other contacts of the confirmed case are being traced, and so far, all have tested negative, but will be actively followed up on for 14 days. WHO is coordinating with national IHR focal points in China and Egypt in order to support the investigation in Egypt.
WHO urges the public to obtain the latest information on COVID-19 from key sources such as Ministries of Health and WHO, and follow and promote the recommended basic preventive and protective measures available on the WHO official websites:
