Today, Friday, the World Health Organization announced the amendment of its guidelines for people infected with the emerging corona virus, following the increase in the number of HIV infections around the world, as it decided to reduce the isolation period for patients, and recommended that people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus is isolated for a period of 10 days in the event of symptoms appearing on them, And for 5 days only if they do not show any symptoms.
The decision of the World Health Organization comes following a previous decision by the organization to isolate infected people who show symptoms for a period of 13 days and 10 days for those who did not show any symptoms, in addition to that it also recommends rapid emerging tests for people infected with the virus.
The high number of corona infections
The World Health Organization indicated that its new recommendations came following 12 studies that included 3,000 participants, but confirmed that they are just recommendations only, and each country has its decision to issue its own guidelines according to the situation of each country, at a time when the latest data available on the university website showed As of yesterday morning, Thursday, Johns Hopkins, the total number of coronavirus infections in the world has reached 665 million, 447 thousand, and 485, and the total deaths due to Corona have risen to 6 million, 713 thousand, and 156 deaths so far since the beginning of the pandemic.
There may be a difference in the numbers of coronavirus infections and deaths around the world, as many agencies provide aggregated data on the pandemic.
