Sudan Reimposes COVID-19 Restrictions

Sudan’s Supreme Committee for Health Emergencies, held a meeting on Wednesday, 24 March 2021 at the Republican Palace, regarding the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.

The committee has issued a number of decisions including reimposing masks, sterilisation and social distancing in all institutions, schools and transportation. It also decided to form a committee from health and the Ministry of Finance, Energy and Media to set urgent solutions to provide aid in the health sector, in addition to speeding up the sterilisation process and increasing vaccination for target groups, including health workers and those 60 years old and above, people with chronic diseases, and workers in vital sectors in the health sector in the country.

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According to the Federal Minister of Health Dr Omar Al Najeeb, a member of the country’s Supreme Committee for Health Emergencies, the committee had heard additional reports from the Federal Ministry of Health and the health authorities in the states of Khartoum and El Gezira, indicating that the reports indicated that there is a steady increase in the number of infections and deaths in those states.

Al Najeeb stressed that the situation in Khartoum calls for concern with an increase in cases, especially among school children, adding that the situation is getting more complicated due to the lack of health services and institutions – in terms of capabilities to receive cases of the COVID-19 pandemic and other medical cases, indicating the acute shortage of hospital capacity, oxygen, medicine and other medical and logistical aid.

Source: Sudan News Agency (SUNA)