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Late in the evening, the Corona counter numbers were set when 14 new cases of the virus were recorded, two of which belonged to expatriates aboard the second batch of the evacuation phase, and ten cases of residents who had mixed with an immigrant who did not adhere to the stone in the Akkar region, while the two cases returned The remaining two residents did not mix with the newcomers. However, the report of the Rafic Hariri Government Hospital, at night, announced the registration of 7 new injuries from 281 exams, bringing the total of yesterday’s injuries to 21.
Although the noon figures from the Ministry of Health were less than fears that the virus would “escape” again, it still presages a pessimistic scenario that predicts the worst; As yesterday’s result is high in relation to the number of controls. Injuries to the 12 residents, for example, were recorded among only 509 examinees (half of the usual daily checks for the past few days), while arrival cases were recorded among the 40 laboratory tests.
Consequently, reality still imposes great caution and alertness, especially since infections have been reported among residents in areas that have not witnessed infections since the virus began to spread, such as Hermel (infection), Rachaya (infection), and Jazzin (4), in addition to suspicious cases in cities that were considered Safe throughout the past period, especially in the south.
Until the results of the examinations of dozens of suspects who have had contact with expatriates, as well as the results of dozens of residents in the regions, the cabinet is discussing today the option of closing the country 48 hours, according to the proposal of the Minister of Health. , Hamad Hassan. According to the sources of “health”, it is assumed that the days Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be completely closed to carry out extensive field checks, indicating that next Thursday is the arrival date of the first trips of the third phase of the evacuation of approximately 11 thousand and 300 expatriates, which will continue until the 24th of this year, which means that the decision to close completely will not apply to the logistics procedures related to the transfer to hotels and then return them to their homes, which imposes a greater rigor in the house insulation procedures, which will be the task of the municipalities in the first place. It is worth mentioning in this regard that there are 4,996 cases subject to domestic quarantine, and the responsibility for their commitment to quarantine rests with them and the responsibility of each of the Ministries of Health in charge of monitoring them and the municipalities responsible for monitoring them.
It was observed that, in the figures of the report of the “National Operations Room for Disaster Management”, yesterday, about 94% of the wounded are currently subject to domestic isolation, indicating that of 599 wounded, 564 cases are in isolation At home, while the remaining 35 patients reside in hospitals (32 are in moderate condition and 3 in intensive care), most of them in the Rafic Hariri Government Hospital. Perhaps these data are related to the fact that only 7.73% of injuries in Lebanon are in critical condition, 63.14% of cases are due to mild and moderate injuries and 29.13% of patients do not suffer any symptoms. .
These events, in any case, indicate that the nature of the injuries in Lebanon helped not to put pressure on the health sector, since it did not require hospitalization, and that “rest” the health sector in the coming days depended on the nature of the new lesions that can be recorded on the one hand, and the speed of spread of the infection. On the other hand, knowing that the state of this sector has not really improved in the last two months, despite the slight improvement measures that the Ministry of Health implemented by equipping some government hospitals with PCR test equipment and artificial respirators . So far, for example, there are only 11 government hospitals out of 30 and four private hospitals are equipped to receive crown cases, meaning that only 15 hospitals in Lebanon can receive injuries.
The import crisis for medical supplies has also worsened, as previously announced by the president of the Association of Importers of Medical Supplies, Salma El-Asi, to “Al-Akhbar”, while the meeting expects to issue a statement explaining developments in the crisis. All of this means that the challenges facing the health sector in the event of a new epidemic crisis are still at the same level of severity. The representative of the World Health Organization, Iman Al-Shanqeeti, met yesterday with the Minister of Health Hamad Hassan with the aim of “becoming familiar with the plans established to equip hospitals and isolation centers and the possibility of increasing tests for laboratory, “and highlighted the need to prevent infected cases from reaching a level that is difficult for the health sector to handle. The sign of Al-Shanqeeti’s indication was that “we are still in the stage of containing the epidemic where there is no widespread local and social spread of COVID-19, but we can move to a more dangerous stage if citizens do not continue to adopt the maximum prevention methods, social divergence, no mixing and distance from meetings, “emphasizing” The need for people to be responsible, especially those from abroad who have to implement the quarantine procedures recommended by the medical teams of the Ministry of Health ” .
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