Given the spread of the respiratory syncytial virus in recent days, the Egyptian government, through the Ministries of Health and Education, is seeking to limit the spread of the virus and issuing some instructions and directives to students and parents in schools for young children, with the approaching winter that contains these viruses.
In this context, the spokesman for the Ministry of Health, Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, urged citizens to wear a muzzle, wash their hands frequently, maintain personal hygiene, and not mix infected students with the virus with healthy ones, as well as not to share household items, calling on mothers with influenza to wear a muzzle and follow the precautions that are taken. Taken during the coronavirus pandemic.
Abdel-Ghaffar indicated that there are about 27 sites in 27 governorates to monitor infections with infectious diseases such as influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, and Corona virus, indicating that there is an increase in virus infections in the current period affecting the respiratory system, calling on citizens to take the vaccine against seasonal influenza, especially. The elderly and those with chronic diseases.
Syncytial virus is not a phenomenon
For his part, the educational expert, Dr. Magdy Hamza, stated that the spread of the syncytial virus is not a phenomenon at the Egyptian level at present, but rather that the spread of infection is due to winter, stressing on parents the importance of taking care not to expose their children to the risk of infection from air conditioners and severe air sources, and to avoid eating Ice cream that causes sore throat.
Go to a government hospital or insurance
“Hamza” continued, “The symptoms of respiratory syncytial virus include high temperature, broken bones, and shortness of breath, and he urged parents to go to the nearest health insurance hospital or government agency, in the event of these symptoms appearing, and not to a private doctor, even to obtain an absence permit for the student from school.” .
And the educational expert urged parents to drink a lot of hot drinks, and if their son was infected with the respiratory syncytial virus, he should not go to school, and if one of the symptoms appeared in students in schools, then teachers should take him to the school doctor, and that there be ventilation in the classrooms, and the necessity to wear masks. In schools, because it contributes to limiting the spread of the virus, and this came with parents’ demands to shorten school days.
Education do precautionary measures in schools
In the same context, the Ministry of Education decided to activate precautionary measures in all schools of the Republic to confront the spread of infectious diseases among students and teachers, and gave urgent directives to directors of education departments, indicating the need to download the Ministry of Health and Population guide on prevention and control of infectious diseases and health conditions that must be observed. In all educational institutions.