Government: There has been No Positive Case
While a number of countries have reported positive cases of the new type of coronavirus infection, Indonesia has yet to announce such cases.
People attend a vigil in Hong Kong on 7 Feb. 2020 for novel coronavirus whistleblowing doctor Li Wenliang (pictured, center), 34, who died in Wuhan after contracting the virus while treating a patient. A Chinese doctor who was punished after raising the alarm about China\'s new coronavirus died from the pathogen on 7 Feb, sparking an outpouring of grief and anger over a worsening crisis that has now killed more than 630 people.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS — While a number of countries have reported positive cases of the new type of coronavirus infection, Indonesia has yet to announce such cases. The Health Ministry said that Indonesia was still free from the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
The Health Ministry’s secretary of the Directorate General of Disease Prevention and Control, Achmad Yurianto, said the inspection procedure refers to the protocol of the World Health Organization (WHO). The examination laboratories are also WHO standardized and accredited.