JAKARTA : The Health Ministry has played down the news that a Chinese tourist who traveLled from Wuhan to Bali last month tested positive for the novel coronavirus a few days after he left the resort
island.
The patient flew to Denpasar, Bali, on Jan 22 on a Lion Air flight from Wuhan and left on a Garuda Indonesia flight from Denpasar to Shanghai on Jan 28. Chinese authorities advised passengers who had been on either flight to quarantine themselves and check for fever."If we find this Jin, we will speak up. There’s no way we will tell people, ‘Hey, you are under observation because you might get infected by someone that I suspect [of being infected by the virus].
“Our suspicion falls on two passengers on those flights: the young Jin and the older Jin. However, their seats are far apart so they’re probably not family, ” he said. As the ministry had not recorded any significant increase in influenza-like illnesses during that period, Achmad said he believed that “Bali’s condition at that time was insufficient for him to be infected by the novel coronavirus.”
“This is not simply about this specific Jin but about how we prepare for strong protection and detection. He is in his country now. We wish him a speedy recovery. Our focus is on Bali right now, ” he said.
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