US woman from cruise liner flown to KL is Malaysia’s 22nd Covid-19 case
Saturday, 15 Feb 2020 10:07 PM MYTFile photo of passengers leave the cruise ship MS Westerdam in the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville, February 15, 2020. — Reuters pic
Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the woman was among the passengers and crew from a cruise ship that had docked in Cambodia last Thursday and was cleared by its government to return to their respective countries after a health screening. He added that tests by the Medical Research Institute of Malaysia’s confirmed the woman to be positive for the novel coronavirus today while her 85-year-old husband, also an American, tested negative.
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