Kuwait: Kuwait’s Ministry of Health made an administrative decision announcing strict guidelines on how to handle acute respiratory cases, particularly the novel coronavirus (nCoV), which it described as “a dangerous communicable disease”. This came after Saudi Arabia detected 6 new cases of the deadly coronavirus, the health ministry said, raising the number of people infected from the SARS-like virus in the kingdom to 30, half of them fatalities.
Medical staff in emergency and critical condition departments, who may have had contact with those infected, have also been told to receive a checkup at the local disease control centre.
It ran through the steps doctors needed to abide by when handling such cases such as dispatching samples in a sealed and refrigerated container accompanied by a report to various laboratories across the country, while paying close attention to the isolation of suspected cases and carrying out regular assessments of their condition, the guidelines showed |