SUSPICION OF DELTA VARIETY SPREADING IN KUWAIT, HEALTH OFFICIALS URGE PEOPLE TO BE EXTRA VIGILANT

  • 05/07/2021

Kuwait City: It is suspected that the Delta variety of covid, which has the highest spread potential, is spreading in the country. New variants and unstable climate are leading to the rise of covid cases, said Dr. Khalid al-Jarallah, head of the Supreme Advisory Council. He said that most of the deaths due to covid in the country were due to non-vaccination and in the present situation.


In the meantime, the current concern is that despite strong preventive measures, there is no significant reduction in the number of patients per day. Delta variants are 60 percent faster to spread than normal viruses. vaccination is the only preventive measure against corona. "Genetic mutations are rapidly occurring in covid variants and people need to be extra careful," he said. Health activists say the rising death toll, along with the number of cases in recent months, is taking the country to a more serious level. The wards of most hospitals in the country are overcrowded. If the corona cases rise from what they are now, it will create a severe crisis in the health sector. Meanwhile, the government has made it clear that the health department is ready to deal with any situation. Authorities have launched a series of preventive measures following the discovery of the Delta variant. Generating planning is being done with the help of a special technical team. At the same time, the authorities believe that the intensification of immunizations will help reduce the current pressure. The Ministry of Health has directed the public to take all precautionary measures against covid which includes wearing masks, cleaning hands, keeping social distance and avoiding crowds.

WHO Director-General Tedros Athanom Gabrios said yesterday that the Delta variant of covid's high-capacity variant is undergoing a transformation and that the world is going through a dangerous period. Tedros Autonom Gabrios said that wearing a mask, maintaining social distance, avoiding crowds and ensuring ventilation inside buildings is important and that the way to avoid a new wave is to continue the practice of monitoring, screening, early detection, isolation and treatment.

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