A member of hospital workers watches over individuals queuing to be examined, amid COVID-19 outbreak.
CAIRO/DUBAI:
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has found a “restricted quantity” of circumstances of individuals contaminated with the brand new coronavirus variant within the nation, a authorities official mentioned, the primary confirmed circumstances of a extra contagious COVID-19 mutant within the Gulf area.
Omar al-Hammadi, an official spokesman of the UAE authorities, mentioned at a press briefing on Tuesday that these affected had travelled from overseas, with out specifying from the place or the variety of the circumstances.
“In gentle of the emergence of the brand new rising pressure of the coronavirus in Britain, and along with the continual investigations by the well being sector, it has been confirmed that there are restricted circumstances within the nation and obtained from overseas,” he mentioned.
Britain and South Africa have individually reported fast-spreading variants of the coronavirus, prompting some nations to ban journey to the 2 international locations amid fears a more-virulent virus might exacerbate strapped well being care methods.
Oman News Company had reported on Dec. 21 that Omani well being authorities had been analyzing 4 suspected circumstances of the variant coming from the UK, citing Well being Minister Ahmed al-Saidi. No additional particulars had been out there.
The UAE has stored its borders and worldwide flights open, whereas neigbouring Saudi Arabia on Monday prolonged a ban on entry to the dominion by air, land and sea for an additional week.
Oman reopened its border on Tuesday, whereas Kuwait – which had additionally suspended all industrial flights and closed its land and sea borders till Jan. 1, doesn’t plan to increase the suspension.
UAE on Tuesday reported 1,506 new COVID-19 circumstances within the final 24 hours, taking the general tally of these contaminated with the virus within the nation to 204,369.
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