Via Al-Hayat: Life - Output: «Education» denies injured student b «Corona» .. and the school principal stresses. As usual, Arabic beats Google Translate, but we can still get a sense of what's going on. Excerpt:
There were conflicting statements by officials in the Education spoke to «life» for registering new infections Pfyrus «Corona» for a secondary school student in the third output, as controlled panic Balvyrus fatal injury to secondary students in question, and had registered yesterday absence collectively.
While the director confirmed the third high school, Al-Kharj Zainab al-Hazmi injured student, denied the Director-General of Education in Al-Kharj, Dr. Zaid Algelevi record any cases Pfyrus «Corona» for students in the schools of the province.
The director admitted secondary third Zainab Al-Kharj Hazmi injured one of her students Pfyrus Corona, which meant skipping school four consecutive days for medical tests. Hazmi and confirmed in connection with the «life» that the injury to the student Pfyrus «Corona» was due to mixing with her older brother (19 years), who died a few days ago because of him, noting that the student is undergoing intensive treatment.
She said: «sister of a student at the elementary level was in her lap medical quarry with her older sister for medical tests to make sure that they got sick».
She Hazmi she continued with the director of the health unit, and demanded to come to school in order to detect the rest of the students and ensure their safety, but the director of the Health Unit has apologized, and justified it as «not able to attend school only after obtaining a medical report to prove the need for the visit», which prompted the Hazmi to communicate with the Assistant Director of Education for the affairs of the school in Al-Kharj, which responded to the demands of the Director, and assigned director of the health unit to come to school and take any Note healthy about the students of their numbers 186 students, and those who were not at all about the attendance yesterday for fear of contracting the disease - according to al-Hazmi - .
I think this means the man's sister (Zainab Al-Hazmi) showed symptoms of MERS after being in contact with her brother. This led to a panic in the girl's school. Zainab, facing a four-day absence for tests, demanded that the director of the health unit run tests on everyone; he declined. Meanwhile some other senior bureaucrat denied there was any MERS at the school. A lot of the 186 students in the school are staying away out of fear.
As confusing as this is, it's one of the few real news stories I've read about MERS in the Saudi media.
