Staff from the office of Sudan PM Abdallah Hamdok are self-isolating after 19 members, including Cabinet Affairs Minister Omer Manis, tested positive for coronavirus during a recent random sampling.
In a Thursday evening statement, the Ministry of Health said others who tested positive include media advisor Dalia Al-Ruby, financial and administrative affairs officer Mahmoud Hussein, and cabinet affairs director Yousef Al-Bashir.
The Ministry said Hamdok tested negative, but the prime minister’s staff went into self-isolation and is being monitored by health personnel.
Dr. Muhiddeen Hassan, a member of the Isolation Command Center in Khartoum state, called this second wave of the pandemic “terrifying.”
“We have a problem with the number of oxygen cylinders, we have a gap of around 1,100 tanks of cylinders, this is one of the main factors preventing us from expanding services in the hospital, either primary or secondary,” Dr. Hassan told VOA’s South Sudan in Focus.
Another major inhibiting factor is not enough medical staff to handle all the cases, according to Dr. Hassan
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