DUBAI: The number of patients in intensive care units, with cases related to the highly transmissible coronavirus disease, doubled during the past two weeks, daily Times of Oman reported.
“We had 20 patients in ICU and today it touched 41 cases. This is a significant and disturbing increase,” Minister of Health Ahmed Al-Saeedi said, adding that the spread of the coronavirus was alarming
“The closure of North Sharqiyah Governorate was due to a 100 percent increase in intensive care cases in Ibra Hospital,” the minister said.
As for the vaccination drive in the Sultanate, Al-Saeedi said the delay in second dose of Pfizer was out of their hands.
“Whoever took the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine will have the second dose available. The delay was outside the control of the Sultanate and this delay was at the global level,” he added.
Meanwhile, Oman has modified some of its quarantine rules, such that children under the age of 15 years and individuals above the age of 60 years do not have to present confirmed hotel reservation for isolation before entering the country.
Other groups included in this exemption are diplomatic missions and airline crew, the report added.
Oman has confirmed 137,929 total cases, with 129,543 recovered patients and 1,544 deaths as on Tuesday.
Oman’s coronavirus-related ICU patients double in 2 weeks
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Oman’s coronavirus-related ICU patients double in 2 weeks
- Oman has also modified some of its quarantine rules
Iran president says Khamenei killing ‘declaration of war against Muslims’
- Masoud Pezeshkian says avenging the killing of the supreme leader was a right and obligation of the Islamic republic
TEHRAN: Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Sunday that the killing of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US and Israeli strikes was a “declaration of war against Muslims.”
“The assassination of the highest political authority of the Islamic Republic of Iran and a prominent leader of Shiism worldwide … is perceived as an open declaration of war against Muslims, and particularly against Shiites, everywhere in the world,” Pezeshkian said in a statement carried by state TV.
Pezeshkian said that avenging the killing of the supreme leader was a right and obligation of the Islamic republic.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran considers it its legitimate duty and right to avenge the perpetrators and masterminds of this historic crime,” said Pezeshkian.
