Indonesia-Singapore Route Tightened after TKI Gets Coronavirus
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5 February 2020 21:32 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Health Ministry said that Indonesia is tightly screening the entries from Singapore to Indonesia. This comes after it has been confirmed that an Indonesian national in Singapore has tested positive with the Wuhan coronavirus in the country.
"The government of Indonesia is making inventories as well as tightening the entries from a number of nations, including Singapore," the Health Ministry's director-general of disease prevention and control Anung Sugihantono said via teleconference today, February 5. Anung is in Natuna, Riau Islands to monitor the observation period of Indonesians who were repatriated from Wuhan.
The Singapore Ministry of Health announced that on February 4 that a 44-year-old Indonesian migrant worker (TKI) has contracted the disease. This was the 21st case of coronavirus infection in the country. The patient never traveled to mainland China, but works in a Singaporean household wherein the residents have been tested positive for the virus.
To date, the city-state has reported 24 cases of coronavirus infection, four of which were transmitted between humans.
Anung said that at least 17,000 people travel between Indonesia and Singapore. "This is now our main attention," he said.
He added that the Foreign Affairs Ministry advised all Indonesians in Singapore to stay calm whilst remaining alert and to pay extra care for their health and hygiene.
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