Algerian authorities to set cameras to detect Swine flu cases

Algerian authorities have acquired a batch of heat cameras in a move to set them in major Algerian ports and airports in the coming days.

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• Moreover, a list comprising 12 high risk countries has been communicated to the different frontiers’ checkpoints in the wake of the rising of the alert level to the maximum. The move is set to face up to the “Swine Flu” threat few days before the return of the first pilgrims to the country.
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• Reliable sources at the health ministry revealed that the announcement made by the World Health Organization declaring that the Swine Flu has turned to a pandemic, has forced the Algerian authorities to acquire these cameras in order to stiffen security measures at the frontiers, thus detecting any suspicious case of “H1N1” virus before leaving the port or airport and avoid contamination.
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• For his part, the head of the health control center at Houari Boumedienne international airport, the doctor Aadjreed has indicated that the measures undertaken at the airport were fully enough to detect any case of “H1N1”, adding that the cameras will signal out the individuals whose temperatures exceed 38° “ The cameras are necessary but not compulsory. By the coming of the first wave of pilgrims, we have to be extremely alert”.
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