Malaysia has to date managed to include the unfold of the brand new coronavirus, with restricted native transmissions, the nation’s well being minister instructed CNBC on Wednesday.
Malaysia has reported 22 instances of the brand new coronavirus as of Tuesday — the third-highest quantity in Southeast Asia behind Singapore and Thailand, in keeping with information compiled by Johns Hopkins College. Formally named COVID-19, the brand new virus is believed to have originated in Wuhan, China.
Of these instances, 13 have recovered and there hasn’t been any reported deaths to date, the information confirmed.
“I feel it’s extremely contained proper now and there is … no trigger for panic in any respect, however we can’t be complacent about this and we’ll proceed to be on severe alert,” Dzulkefly Ahmad, Malaysia’s well being minister, instructed CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia.”
He added that there have been few native transmissions throughout the nation.
Malaysia’s well being ministry earlier mentioned six of the 22 confirmed instances are Malaysians, and solely two of them caught the virus regionally. The remaining instances reported within the nation are 15 Chinese language nationals and one American who was aboard the MS Westerdam cruise ship.
Dzulkefly mentioned Malaysia has stepped up its surveillance at its worldwide entry factors by rising the variety of thermal scanners to detect potential instances of the flu-like illness that may result in pneumonia. The nation has additionally…