by VALERIO BARRETTA
Gala 2024, FIA wants to stay in Rwanda
The recent news reports do not worry the FIA leaders. In the intentions of President Mohammed Ben Sulayem there is always the desire to organize the traditional end-of-year gala in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, on 13 December, despite the outbreak of an epidemic of the virus in the African country Marburg.
At the moment the appointment is confirmed, considering the words of an FIA spokesperson reported by Autosport: “We are monitoring the situation closely in collaboration with the Rwandan Ministry of Health. We are currently proceeding as planned”.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently advised against traveling to Rwanda, where 12 people have died out of 46 confirmed cases since the outbreak of the epidemic (on 27 September) by Rwandan Health Minister Sabin Nsanzimana: “The WHO rates the risk as very high at the national level, high at the regional level and low at the global level“, of this epidemic which therefore currently has little possibility of expanding globally unlike Covid-19.
The Marburg virus, clinically similar to Ebola, can cause fatal hemorrhagic fever and in other cases (always recorded in Africa) had mortality rates that even reached 88%as recorded in Equatorial Guinea in 2023. The disease spreads between humans through direct contact – including with the blood, secretions, organs or other body fluids of infected people, and with contaminated surfaces and materials, such as bedding and clothing . There are no approved therapies against the virus, but potential trials of vaccines and treatments are being conducted.
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