The Sudanese Ministry of Health announced that the largest groups infected with COVID recently were concentrated among the 20-29 age groups, and noted that deaths are rising among those over 70 years old.
Khartoum: AlTaghyeer
The Sudanese Ministry of Health in Khartoum State announced a decrease in COVID-19 cases during the past week.
The Ministry of Health confirmed that the situation has improved in terms of the availability of beds in isolation centers, unlike the past two weeks, which witnessed a large accumulation, as a result of which all isolation centers had been filled with COVID patients.
Epidemiological Situation
During the scientific forum for the Corona pandemic, the Director of the General Department for Health Promotion at the Ministry of Health, Khartoum State, Dr. Salah el-Din Hassan Haj Musa, criticized the epidemiological situation in the state and Sudan.
Haj Musa denounced circulating conversations linking the uptick of malaria and typhoid caseswith the Corona virus, saying that the information was “wrong, considering that the virus strikes the respiratory system directly and has nothing to do with other organs,” while asserting at the same time the efficiency of the vaccines.
Infected groups
Haj Musa revealed that the largest groups recently infected were concentrated within the 20-29 age groups, while pointing out that deaths are on the rise among those over 70 years.
The health official renewed the assurances of the health authorities that Sudan and its capital Khartoum in particular, so far, have recorded Omicron infections.
Two days ago, the Federal Ministry of Health announced that Sudan was free of the mutated Omicron corona virus.
The Ministry of Health revealed four types of vaccines, and that four million doses are currently available, with the expected total amount of vaccines reaching six million doses, and that the vaccination rate has reached 3%, with the target being 20% of the population.
The Undersecretary of the Federal Ministry of Health, Haitham Muhammad Ibrahim, called on civil society groups, organizations, and institutions to play their role in warding off the pandemic, especially since the country’s health system is weak.
He acknowledged that the ministry faced problems at the beginning of the epidemic, when the state’s capacity was limited to 300 beds, which has now risen to over a thousand beds through 47 isolation centers.
Ibrahim called for the need expedite the vaccination process targeting all those over 18 years old, and pointed out that vaccination reduces the need for hospitalization and spending on health.
