Santo Domingo, RD.
The authorities of the Department of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health have not yet taken any preventive measures at the Las Americas International Airport, around the Wuhan virus, causing the mysterious pneumonia in China, which has caused deaths and hospitalizations in that Asian nation .
Dr. Rafael Tejada, in charge of Public Health services, at the airport terminal said, however, that meetings are being held for possible prevention measures at the country’s airports.
However, at the airports in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles will begin to examine passengers arriving from Wuhan, in China, to detect the infection of the mysterious respiratory virus that already killed two people and made at least 45 people sick. abroad, as announced by the authorities of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday.
In fact, there are some cases in which infections were not related to animals and researchers fear that it is possible to transmit from person to person, so they are taking precautions.
“We still have not received any notification from the Department of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health, which is the body responsible for the implementation of disease prevention measures,” said the doctor.
He indicated that the Ministry authorities have already held meetings with the departmental managers analyzing the situation of the virus.
He said that it is no secret to anyone that, through the Las Americas terminal and other terminals arrive in the country, every week hundreds of Chinese passengers and other nationalities as tourists.
“Little is known about this virus that emerged in China responsible for mysterious Chinese pneumonia, which we must study, how it is transmitted and how it can be fought,” said Dr. Rafael Tejada.
Instead, the World Health Organization reported that the “new coronavirus appears periodically in China”, after stating that this country has a solid health system, capable of responding and managing outbreaks of respiratory infections.
WHO works with networks of experts and researchers to coordinate surveillance, epidemiology, diagnosis, clinical care, treatments and routes of transmission of this virus.
At the moment, it is believed that most people with the disease contracted it because they were exposed to animals in a market that sells seafood and meat in the Chinese population of Wuhan, and there is still no certainty about whether the virus spreads in person to person.
While some 100 CDC experts were deployed at the three American airports, on the first flight whose passengers will be examined upon arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Friday night said Martin Cetron, director of the Global migration and quarantine division of CDC.
He also explained that travelers’ exams will begin a day later at the international airports of San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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