Two Arab countries are at the forefront of the largest corona foci in terms of injuries to the population

Two Arab countries top the list of countries most affected by the emerging corona virus around the world in terms of the number of infections in relation to their total population, according to the Associated Press.

The agency said in a report published today, Thursday, that these two countries are Qatar, which to date have recorded 107,871 confirmed infections with the virus that causes “Covid-19”, of which 163 are deaths, and the number of its citizens is estimated at 2.8 million, and Bahrain has recorded 37,637 cases, including 130 deaths, with a population of 1.6 million.

Based on these figures, the percentage of injuries to the total population in Qatar and Bahrain exceeds 3.85% and 2.35%, respectively.

The latest studies revealed, according to “Associated Press,” in the two countries a high percentage of patients who did not show symptoms of “Covid-19”, or about 60% in Qatar and 68% in Bahrain, which raises questions about the effectiveness of measuring the temperature of citizens in a manner Collectively as a means of monitoring injuries and reducing the spread of the epidemic.

The report pointed out that the increased number of tests allowed the local authorities to detect a large-scale outbreak of the epidemic in housing and slums collectively inhabited by foreign workers from Asia, amid conditions that contribute to the spread of the virus.

Statistics confirm, according to “Associated Press”, that about 30% of the total number of injured in Qatar are citizens of India, 18% of Nepal and 14% of Bangladesh.

In Bahrain, more than 2.6 thousand, out of more than six thousand people diagnosed by following up on cases of previous patients, return to the citizens of India, 1260 people from Bangladesh and 400 people from both Pakistan and Nepal, while the number of injured Bahraini citizens is 1,310 people.

The researcher at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Leith Abu Raddad, and a researcher at the American University of Beirut, attributed Mumtaz to this, that the majority of foreign workers are often not elderly, while the authorities of the two countries indicated, in response to questions from the “Associated Press”, To your successes in conducting checks.

The report suggested that the figures mentioned above more broadly reflect the situation in the Gulf region, whose countries are heavily dependent on foreign workers, especially the success of local governments in following up with the epidemic.

Source: Associated Press