RIYADH — Dr. Abdullah Asiri, assistant deputy minister of health for preventive health, said that the ministry has mobilized a total of 100 hospitals and healthcare centers to monitor respiratory infections. He said that this is part of the mechanism that Saudi Arabia has adopted to monitor the types of respiratory infections and their causes.

Dr. Asiri, who is also infectious diseases consultant at the ministry, said that Saudi Arabia has arranged a network of monitoring centers, including 30 hospitals and 70 primary healthcare centers, which are distributed geographically and demographically. These medical monitoring centers will collect data on respiratory infections, especially serious cases, and respiratory samples (swabs) will be examined at two levels.