In Qatar, a new study found that nearly 60% of other people who tested positive had no symptoms, and wondered how useful massive temperature controls were to prevent other inflamed people from mingled with others. In Bahrain, the government further raised the asymptomatic figure of 68%.
These effects reflect the broader unrest faced by Persian Gulf countries that rely on reasonable foreign labor and their relative good fortune in monitoring their COVID-19 epidemics, given their oil wealth and authoritarian governments.
Aggressive testing has a higher number of cases shown, as fitness officials in Bahrain and Qatar have focused on vulnerable work camps and neighborhoods, where Asian migrant staff sleep, eat and live with dozens of other people who have space.
“That’s why, globally, we haven’t been able to control, I think, the infection because the reaction has only focused on locating cases, isolating them and classifying their contacts,” said Laith Abu-Raddad, a disease researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar. “Now, if many other people who get the infection spread the infection without even knowing it, it literally doesn’t work.”
The island kingdom of Bahrain and the energy-rich mainland country of Qatar have been embroiled in a multi-year political standoff that has ended and the industry between two countries a few miles away. However, similarities abound in those allied U.S. countries: Bahrain hosts the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, while Qatar is home to the U.S. Army Central Command’s complex headquarters at its vast Al-Udeid airbase.
Both rely heavily on foreign labor, whether administrative staff at banks or administrative staff who climb scaffolding at the structure sites. Qatar, in particular, embarked on a huge boom of structures before the 2022 World Cup.
The virus has discovered a house in the narrow neighborhoods where foreign staff were looking to save money to send them home.
In Qatar, almost 30% of those affected were from India, while 18% were Nepalese and 14% Bangladeshi, according to a study by Abu-Raddad and others.
Of the more than 6,000 touch track instances published through Bahrain, more than 2,600 concerned Indian citizens, while 1,310 were Bahraini and 1,260 were Bangladeshi. More than 400 arrived from Pakistan and some from Nepal.
These figures in Bahrain and Qatar relate to the entire Gulf Cooperation Council, the regional bloc that also includes Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, all of which have a vast reserve of foreign labour already sick and trapped by the virus. . Training
Although other GCC countries have damaged coronavirus cases through nationality, a recent paper in the Oman Medical Journal stated that of the first 1,304 cases of sultanate virus, 29% of patients were Indian, 20% Bangladeshi and 10% Pakistani.
Their living situation is likely to make them more threatened with contracting the virus, as the inhabitants of Bahrain and Qatar live in single-family homes. The spread reflects the contagion observed in boarding schools and other places where other people live in combination in non-unusual areas.
Qatar, with a population of 2.8 million, reported more than 107,000 cases of coronavirus and 163 deaths. Bahrain, with a population of 1.6 million, reported more than 37,000 cases and deaths.
It is that the mortality rate in both countries remains low, with Qatar at 0.15% and Bahrain at 0.34%. The mortality rate in the United States is approximately 3.6%.
Abu-Raddad and Ghina Mumtaz, a disease researcher at the American University of Beirut, characterize this as a component of the younger runner population in Bahrain and Qatar.
“If you look at the infection mortality rate, you’ll realize it’s not as scary as looking for the number of cases that match the capita,” Mumtaz said.
In response to questions from The Associated Press about their epidemics, Bahrain and Qatar attributed their highest number of cases to some of the most productive in line with the world’s per capita detection rates. Qatar also has Singapore, a city-state in Southeast Asia that has also experienced virus outbreaks among its migrant workers.
Bahrain stated that “the preventive detection strategy of its government that the vast majority of cases are known before the onset of symptoms.” room, with approximately 3 meters (10 feet) of area for each.
“Due to our low detection threshold, we have known many more asymptomatic and mild cases of the virus than many other countries,” Qatar said. It now imposes a maximum of 4 in line with a dormitory room of at least 6 square meters (64 square feet). ) consistent with the occupant.
But locating most other asymptomatic inflamed people raises questions about the effectiveness of symptom verification only for other people’s medical care or to check others through temperature controls and thermal detection. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the number of asymptomatic cases is 40% in the United States.
More than 2,000 cases of contract traceability in Bahrain occurred “as a result of a crusade to download random samples from the community,” the database showed.
The greater number of asymptomatic Americans in both countries means that once the virus reaches a new population, the threat of others spreading it unknowingly while feeling well increases enormously.
“You’re talking about the spark of a fire, ” said Abu-Raddad.
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