The World Health Organization (WHO) office in Muscat has said that emerging diseases like the new Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)-like virus outbreak are being constantly monitored in Oman.
The surveillance system in the sultanate is capable finding cases (if any), which includes the latest coronavirus that affected two GCC countries.
Dr Abdullah Saleh Assaedi, the WHO representative in Oman, said, “Monitoring any emerging disease is a very crucial task and we are doing it.”
He said that monitoring is done through International Health Regulations (IHR). “The country’s Ministry of Health reports it to IHR, which in turn reports to WHO.” He added that WHO encourages all member states to continue their surveillance on Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (SARI) and is currently reviewing the case definition related to the novel coronavirus...
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