Lucie Lecomte keeps finding remarkable resources, including a Saudi newspaper called Al-Sharq, which in today's edition has this report: «Health Jeddah» denies ministry statement: We have no infected. Excerpt from a Google translation:
The Director of Health Affairs in Jeddah Dr. Sami Badawoud no injuries virus Corona hospitals in Jeddah, contrary to the announcement by the Ministry of Health on its website for the registration of injury to a child in Jeddah reach of Alamraamin, and suffers from a chronic disease of the lungs and receiving treatment in intensive care.
Between Badawoud to Jeddah there have been no cases of HIV infection, pointing to the absence of specific guidance in dealing with patients due to the lack of cases.
He said in a statement to «East» that all hospitals maintain there are sections of isolating infectious diseases and Mobile and will be placed with them, if any, and the terms of the private sector will be converted infected with the virus, if any, to government hospitals for readiness rooms and sections for insulation.
The general supervisor of the lab regional and managing director of laboratories and blood banks in the health of Jeddah consultant Hematology Dr. Saeed Al-Amoudi told «Middle» non-receipt of laboratory regional sample of a child at the age of two years, confirming the arrival of a number of samples of suspect transferred from hospitals Jeddah governmental and private, all of which have undergone screening positive were recorded by the virus permanently.The report goes on with an obscure explanation of testing times, even harder to follow than what I've posted here. But if I understand the story, Jeddah says the 2-year-old, while ill, isn't ill with MERS. Jeddah's hospitals have the isolation and intensive-care units to deal with such cases, but they have no cases; while the regional lab has had samples from suspected cases in both public and private hospitals, nothing was received from the child. And while "screening positive" sounds as if those tests reflect a serious outbreak, the sense of the story is that no MERS cases been found.
The story's chief interest lies in the disagreement between the Saudi Ministry of Health and the head of public health in one of the kingdom's major cities: message control is evidently an issue in this outbreak.
