Experts in infectious diseases express their preoccupation with the recent journey of Father Francisco to Iraq, adding to the sudden increase in coronavirus cases in the country, its fragile health system and which are likely to be inevitable for Iraqi people.
Nadie wants to tell Francisco that he cancels his plans, and the Iraqi governor still has any interest in showing his relative stability by first seeing a father in Abraham’s birthplace.
The journey between the 5th and the 8th of March will give a necessary moral support to the Christian Christians, in addition to advancing in the efforts of the father to tender points with the Islamic world.
But from a point of view of purely epidemiological, as well as the public health message that was transmitted, a father’s trip to Iraq in the middle of a global pandemic is not recommended, according to health experts.
His preoccupations were confirmed by the notification of the domingo that the Vatican’s ambassador to Iraq, the principal responsible for travel and that accompanied by Francisco to all his actions, had positive evidence in COVID-19 and was in quarantine.
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In addition to these cases, experts say that the wars, economic crisis and an exodus of Iraqi professionals have devastated the hospital system of the country, while the master studies of the new case of COVID-19 cases in Iraq are due to more contagious variant first identified in Great Britain.
“Simply do not give me a good idea”, says doctor Navid Madani, virologist and founding director of the Center for the Education of Health in the Middle East and North Africa, dependent on the Dana-Farber Institute against the Cancer of the Faculty of Medicine of Harvard.
Madani, killed in Iran, co-authored an article in The Lancet about the passing of the response from the COVID-19 region, noting that Iraq, Syria and Yemen have established preparations to tackle the crisis that has led to 40 extremist surgeries and tensions millions of people who need humanitarian aid.
In a telephone interview, Madani signaled that Oriente Medio was informed by his hospitalization and advice that he was enthusiastic about the Iraqis receiving a dialogue led by Francisco to an abandoned world zone and discharged by the war could provoke virus-to-virus violations to control.
This can provoke situations that can only make the event supervised.
Dr. Bharat Pankhania, an expert in infectious diseases in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Exeter, is a must-have.
“It’s a perfect tower to generate many cases that can not be managed,” he said.
Promising organizers impress with the use of mascarillas, social distance and limits of distance in papal events, with the possibility of increasing the number of places where diagnostic tests can be performed, including Iraqi officials.
The sanitary protocol is “critical, but can be managed”, according to The Associated Press a member of the government, which has a condition of anonymity.
The Vatican has its own precautionary measures. The 84-year-old father, in the sequel to 20 people and more than 70 periodicals traveling through the pontificate, was evacuated.
But it is not the case of the Iraqis who are reunited in the north, the center and the country to assist in the missions of Francisco in open and closed spaces, listen to his speeches, assist in the nurses and organize the logistics of a complicated journey.
And scientists say this is the problem.
“We are in the middle of a global pandemic. And it’s important to send the correct messages, ”said Pankhania. “The correct messages are: how many interactions with other human beings, better”.
He also questioned the image of a Vatican delegation evacuated when the Iraqis were standing, and signaled that the Iraqis should be arrested and assisted in the actions of their class because the father was standing.
In words directed at Vatican authorities and the media, including AP periodicals, it says: “All of you are protected by a serious illness. In a way that is infectious, no van a morir. But the people who live in the world can get infected and die. ”
“In these circles, do you think that vayan sin más, y porque ustedes van, la gente acuda a verles y se contagie?”, Preguntó.
The World Health Organization has diplomatically called for an inquiry into Iraq’s papal route, noting that countries should evaluate the risk of each event taking on the panorama, and deciding whether to issue it or not.
“For example, if celebrating party parties, everyone turns up to check this risk,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, OMS Technical Director at COVID-19. “If you want to evaluate the epidemiological situation in the country and then make sure that including the event you are producing, you can make the most secure form possible”.
Francisco says that it has been included and that the Mayor of Iraqis has seen it on television to avoid contagion. Importantly, he told the Catholic News Service that “the father is here, in his country.”
Francisco has frequently received an equitable distribution of vacancies and respect for the medical facilities of the goblins, although it is tithing to no mascarillas. During months he acted in public, including controlled assistance and social distance, to limit the risk of contagion.
Dr. Michael Head, Director of Research and Global Health at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton, said that the number of new cases in Iraq was “significantly increasing at the moment”, with 4,000 daily contact reports reported by the Ministry of Health, looking for the peaked peak during the first oil in September.
Head said that any trip to Iraq should include mediating to avoid contagions, such as mascara staff, maneuvers, social distance and good ventilation in closed spaces.
“We will see proactive contagious control strategies during the father’s visit to Baghdad,” he said.
The Iraqi governor imposed a modified quarantine and a touchdown on the media in February before the case was settled. Closures and mezquitas and restaurants and cafeterias will be available to help you get there.
However, the governing body does not intend to close all commercial activity due to the failure to apply the medium and its effect on the Iraqi economic downturn, according to AP the Iraqi forces.
Many Iraqis use irregularly shaped mascarillas and some of them are infected with the virus.
Madani, the Harvard virologist, told travel organizers to say that science and data are gaining ground.
Putting the passageway in a virtual tender format “quite an impact from a global leadership point of view”, signaled “because it indicates that Iraqi public safety is a priority”.