“#Because they_spike” tops Saudi Twitter … and urgent investigation into “wrong phrase”

The hashtag “# Toham_spike” published a list of the most tweeted on the short blog site “Twitter” in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, after a mistake during a press conference to find out the latest developments in the situation of Corona in the Kingdom.

During a conference by the Interior Ministry security spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Talal Al-Shalhoub, to clarify the places covered by the closure decisions, as part of the new precautionary measures recently announced by the Kingdom, including gyms and sports centers to which the phrase “because they are peaks” was added.

This comes when local press reports indicated that the authorities responsible for the press conference decided to open an urgent investigation into the circumstances of the appearance of the phrase, while Saudi journalists claimed that what happened was an “individual error” .

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Previously, the official spokesman for the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health, Dr. Muhammad Al-Abd Al-Aali, gave a series of advice to citizens and residents to face the increase in cases of the emerging corona virus (Covid 19).

Al-Abd al-Aali recommended within his awareness messages to the community under the slogan “Do not be flattering at the cost of your health” with five no-nos: “Do not shake hands, do not hug, do not remove the muzzle, do not neglect hand washing, do not attend meetings. “

Today Sunday, the Saudi Ministry of Health warned about the concentrations in public places and the lack of respect for spacing, noting that 443,153 doses of the anti-Corona vaccine were administered, and considered that the AstraZeneca vaccine is one of the most used vaccines and that its results are promising.