MOH takes procedures regarding Iraqis coming from India

INA – Baghdad

Ministry of Health and Environment – MOH revealed on Saturday, the details of its procedures with Iraqis returning from India while confirming that it is not possible to distinguish between the old and the new Indian pandemic currently.
 
"The Council of Ministers decided to quarantine Iraqis coming from India for 14 days in private places,” said the director of public health in the ministry, Riyad Abdul Amir Al-Halfi, to the Iraqi News Agency (INA).
 
He indicated that “all those coming from the first group were quarantined in a hotel in the Rusafa district and took tests and some of them are positive with no symptoms,"
 
Al-Halfi stressed that "the ministry has placed those coming from India under surveillance, and there are medical teams that visit them, and they are tested weekly and within 14 days they can go back to their homes," noting that "the ministry recorded 82 cases among the arrivals, but all of them were without symptoms,"
 
“The ministry will separate the infected and the non-infected because some don’t have clear symptoms, and their health condition does not need to be hospitalized," he explained and went on saying, "The cases will be followed up by the ministry and reports will continue every week to confirm their condition,"
 
“We cannot now distinguish between the previous type and the Indian type of the pandemic, but the positive cases have been diagnosed and followed up,"