AlQa'dah 14, 1435, September 09, 2014, SPA -- Dr. Tawfeeq Khoja, the Director General of the Executive Bureau of the GCC ministers of health council, has announced that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is in control of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome "corona" virus on the eve of Hajj season. In an interview with Bahraini Al-Watan (the nation) newspaper published here today, Khoja vowed that the recently-formed Command and Control Health Center of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has contributed to drastically reduce the corona cases to a controllable level, making the country ready to receive over two million pilgrims with high preparedness to combat contagious diseases, led by Ebola. In this regard, he said the host country did not block Nigerian pilgrims, whose country is among the reputed sources of Ebola, from coming to perform the ritual this year. However, pilgrims from Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia were denied coming, he added. Khoja drew the attention to the fact that Saudi Arabia has produced epidemic-free Hajj seasons over the last few years, thanks to the preventive measures applied, the latest of which is the establishment of a highly-equipped Command and Control Health Center, which recruited renowned experts from all over the world to help control the spread of infectious diseases during Hajj and Umrah (minor Hajj) seasons.
