CAIRO - Egypt's Health Ministry announced Sunday the cases infected with pinkeye virus reached 1,368 in three governorates, confirming that the recovery from the virus is 100 per cent as it causes no harm to the eyesight.
"We got 1342 pinkeye cases in Daqahliya governorate, 11 in Port Said and 15 in Damietta. Most of the patients are schoolchildren who caught the virus from their colleagues," Abdel Rahman Shahin, the Health Ministry spokesman was quoted by the official Middle East news Agency (MENA) as saying Sunday.
He added that the pinkeye virus was a very simple virus from which patients could be recovered within ten days even without medicines.
"We are making a survey of the epideme across the nation," Shahin said.
The Health Ministry informed the Ministry of Education that there is no need to close the classrooms in the infected areas.
"However, the infected students should be give a ten day vacation," Shahin said.
The Shura Council (the Upper House of the Parilament), meanwhile, formed a committee to follow on the latest developments related to the virus incidence.
"The increased number of pinkeye patient will be studied by the House's health committee," said Safwat el-Sherif, the head of the council.
Some 200 students tested positive to the virus in Mansoura, Daqahliya governorate, which turns the eye into pink colour and causes it to shed more tears.
