As schools open this month and beginning of October, health officials assured that the general indicators of the Covid-19 virus in the country are witnessing unprecedented stability, and there is no cause for concern about students returning to schools, especially after excluding distance education that was implemented last year during the height of the pandemic.

A daily Arab paper reported that health officials have confirmed the daily infection rate of the number of swabs reached 3.6%, indicating the improving epidemiological situation in the country, after the rates were much higher in varying periods of the pandemic, while stressing to maintain physical distancing measures. According to the Ministry of Health, the number of daily infections reached 39 on the 3rd of this month, while there are only two cases in the wards designated for Covid-19 patients in public hospitals, and 8 cases in intensive care units, and the cure rate of the disease reached 99.6%, and there was no recorded deaths due to complications from the virus since last August 13.

Moreover, a noticeable decrease in the rates of vaccination in the recent period have been reported for various reasons, including the improvement of the epidemiological situation in the country, the decrease in the rate of recorded infection to the number of daily swabs, in addition to the departure of a large number of families abroad to spend the summer vacation from the beginning of last June until the beginning of this month.

Health sources also added that the number of those who received the first dose of anti-virus vaccines from early last April to early September reached about 26,000 citizens and residents, and the number of those who received the second dose exceeded 43,000. Meanwhile, the percentage increased from 83.9 percent of the total number of people eligible to receive the vaccinations to 85 percent for the mentioned period, pointing out that approximately 187,000 people received the third and fourth booster doses during that period.

On the other hand, the sources confirmed that the noticeable demand for receiving antiviral doses during the past five months, especially the booster dose, is evidence of an increase in health awareness among large segments of society, especially since the turnout took place in light of the decrease in infections and rates of clinical work in wards and intensive care in hospitals./agencies