The World Health Organization has changed its recommendations for people infected with the Corona virus as it has shortened the isolation period for patients. The organization now recommends that people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus self-isolate for 10 days if they develop symptoms and for 5 days if they do not. infected people who show symptoms for 13 days and 10 days for those who do not show symptoms.
WHO also recommends rapid antigen tests for infected people. The organization bases its recommendations on 12 studies involving about 3,000 people. The organization says they are only recommendations. Each country can issue its own rules. The latest data available on the American Johns Hopkins University website as of Thursday indicates that the total number of coronavirus infections has reached 665 million 447 thousand 485, and the total number of deaths due to the pandemic has risen to 6 million 713 thousand and 156 deaths. .
It should be noted that there are a number of agencies that provide aggregate data on Corona around the world and there may be some differences between them.
On the other hand, a prominent epidemiologist in China expected that the peak of the Covid-19 wave in the country would last two to three months, and that the situation would soon explode in vast rural areas. Where medical resources are relatively scarce. The spread of infection is expected to increase in rural areas. As hundreds of millions of people return to their hometowns for the Lunar New Year holidays. The holiday officially starts on January 21, and before the pandemic, it was called the largest annual movement of the movement in the world.
Last month, China abruptly abandoned a strict regime that included massive lockdowns that sparked unprecedented nationwide protests in late November, and finally reopened its borders on Sunday. But the sudden lifting of restrictions allowed the virus to infect a population of 1.4 billion people, more than a third of whom live in areas where infections have already peaked, according to state media.
Zeng Guang, a former chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, warned that the worst was far from over, according to a report on the local website Saixin on Thursday. “The priority was to focus on big cities,” Zeng said. It’s time to focus on the countryside. He said that a large number of rural residents; Where medical facilities are relatively weaker, they are neglected, including the elderly, the sick and the disabled. At the same time, the authorities said they were making efforts to improve the supply of antiviral drugs throughout the country. Merck & Co’s Covid drug molnopiravir is expected to be available in China starting Friday.
