Oman expects rise in COVID-19 cases in coming days

Dubai: Oman’s minister of health Ahmed Bin Mohammad Al Saidi said he expected a spike in the coronavirus infections in the coming days, Oman TV reported on Saturday.

A statement issued online by Oman TV said: “The Minister of Health said that we have noticed there were gatherings to perform Taraweeh prayers and iftar during Ramadan. Therefore, Oman is expected to see an increase in coronavirus cases in the coming days.

Meanwhile, a senior doctor specialising in child healthcare at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) has said that 5 per cent of COVID-19 cases reported in Oman were among children,.

Dr Zaid Al Hinai, a consultant on paediatric infectious diseases at the SQU, asked parents to be more observant of their children after they get exposed to the virus, as they then begin to develop symptoms of a dangerous syndrome called Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), which has started appearing in children in some parts of the world, after they’ve tested positive for COVID-19.

However, although a number of children have tested positive for COVID-19 in Oman, there have been no deaths recorded among them so far.

“The estimate we have so far is of approximately five per cent of the infected cases in Oman. Thankfully, the vast majority of them have been mild so far and there have been very few hospitalisations, and no deaths among children in Oman have been recorded,” Al Hinai said.

Oman witnessed has recently seen a spike in COVID-19 cases between 400 to 800 cases per day.