2024-02-17 21:32:00
11:32 PM Saturday February 17, 2024
Spread of respiratory viruses
Written by Dalia Al-Dhanini:
Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, said: The period of weather fluctuations and low temperatures is the period in which the spread of respiratory viruses increases, and they spread in January and February throughout the year and globally, stressing that scientists have proven that during periods of low temperatures Respiratory viruses spread.
Abdel Ghaffar added, during a telephone conversation with the journalist Karima Awad, on the “Cairo Talk” program, broadcast on the “Cairo and the People” screen, on Saturday evening, that there is a slight increase in the spread of respiratory viruses compared to infection rates in previous years.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population explained that the increase in respiratory viruses is the same rates every year, and in May 2023, the World Health Organization declared the end of the Corona pandemic as a global emergency and moved on to the rest of the other viruses, and until this moment there is no reason to deal with Corona differently than Other viruses.
He continued: We must protect ourselves from infection with respiratory viruses, through the rules that we learned during the Corona pandemic period, and they must be preserved through continuous disinfection of hands, ventilation, good nutrition, and wearing a mask in crowded and poorly ventilated areas.
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