Malaysian police detain Chinese couple for refusing quarantine

A Chinese couple, who took their two-year old toddler suspected of having been infected with the coronavirus out of the Sultanah Aminah Hospital in Johor Bahru, were detained on January 25 by local police at the Senai International Airport.
Malaysian police detain Chinese couple for refusing quarantine ảnh 1The Chinese couple took their toddler suspected of having been infected with coronavirus out of Sultanah Aminah Hospital. (Source: freemalaysiatoday.com)

Hanoi (VNA) - A Chinese couple, who took their two-year old toddler suspected of having been infected with thecoronavirus out of the Sultanah Aminah Hospital in Johor Bahru, were detainedon January 25 by local police at the Senai International Airport.

The police was alerted after the Chinesecouple refused to obey a directive for their two-year-old to be quarantined, saying that they did not want to misstheir flight back to China.

Malaysia has reported four cases ofcoronavirus inflection so far.

Noor Hisham Abdullah, a senior official from the Health Ministry,  said the latest case was a 40-year-old manfrom Wuhan, China, who was part of a tour group that travelled by bus to thesouthern state of Johor from Singapore on January 22.

The man had suffered from fever the next day and sought treatmentat a hospital in Johor. Tests by Malaysia's Crisis Preparedness and ResponseCentre confirmed he was suffering from the coronavirus, Noor Hisham said.

Earlier, Health Minister Dzulkefly Ahmad had announced threeconfirmed cases of coronavirus infection in three Chinese nationals, the firstreported in Malaysia.

The three were related to a 66-year-old man confirmed by Singaporeto have tested positive for the virus. The infected individuals were a65-year-old woman, who is the wife of the man with the virus in Singapore, andtheir two grandsons, aged 11 and 2, Dzulkefly said.

The three have been admitted to hospital in Kuala Lumpur and werein stable conditions, the minister told a news conference.

Malaysia Airports said it had heightened screening of passengersand crew arriving from China at gateway airports across the country to minimisethe potential spread of the virus.

On January 25, the Republic of Korea reported its third case of the Chinesevirus.

The country earlier reported two confirmed casesof the new coronavirus strain that causes pneumonia-like sickness on January 20and 24 and is keeping close tabs on those that may have come in contact withsuch people./.
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