Schools and universities will be closed for ten days. A measure motivated by an increase in new cases of coronavirus registered in recent weeks. Almost 159 cases have been registered in the last 24 hours. Since the pandemic began in March, Mauritania has experienced 9,000 cases of infection, including 7,900 cures and 181 deaths. The death toll has risen in recent days.
as reported from Nouakchott, Salem Mejbour
The negative development of the pandemic worries the Mauritanian authorities. The virus circulates rapidly and everywhere, says Dr. Sidi Ould Zahaf, Director General of Public Health: “It is difficult to explain the re-emergence of Covid, it has become an endemic disease, so it means it is there in society. Like all endemic infectious diseases, it can “When conditions are favorable, the virus is causing epidemic peaks. And this is what we are currently experiencing, in Mauritania.”
Compliance with preventive measures
To limit the spread of the virus, the Director General of Health demands that the preventive measures be followed: “To date, we have no effective solution to limit this disease. And as long as this solution is not in place, the only way left is to prevent it. It is the individual and collective measures that are known to all and that make it possible to at least reduce the damage of this pandemic. “
Systematic hand washing
Among these barrier gestures: systematic hand washing, mandatory masking and respect for social distancing, especially in public places such as markets and mosques. The Mauritanian government has also decided to reduce the presence of civil servants in public administrations.
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