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6 suspected patients, 3 with contact with COVID-19 cases, quarantined in Jakarta hospital
The Sulianti Saroso Infectious Diseases Hospital has tested all six patients for COVID-19. The results are expected on Wednesday
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Hospital staff members and visitors wear masks at the isolation ward of Sulianti Saroso Infectious Diseases Hospital (RSPI) in Jakarta on Monday. (JP/Seto Wardhana)
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he Sulianti Saroso Infectious Diseases Hospital (RSPI) in Jakarta has quarantined six new patients suspected of having been infected with the novel coronavirus, bringing the number of people being treated for the illness at the hospital to eight – including two who earlier tested positive for COVID-19, the disease resulting from the novel coronavirus.
"We have isolated six new suspected COVID-19 patients since [Monday] night. Two people, who were referred to us by another hospital, arrived this morning," said RSPI president director Mohammad Syahril, as quoted by Antara on Tuesday
Of the four people admitted to quarantine on Monday evening, three were found to have had direct contact with the country’s first two COVID-19 patients – a 31-year-old woman and her 64-year-old mother, also referred to as Case 1 and Case 2 respectively – who have been quarantined separately in the hospital since Sunday.
"The other one is a foreigner who recently visited a foreign country with a coronavirus outbreak," Syahril said, although he refused to name the exact country.
All four patients had shown symptoms of coronavirus infection, including fevers, coughs and sore throats, he added.
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The other two patients, who were admitted to the RSPI on Tuesday, had been transferred from another hospital in Jakarta, Syahril said without revealing the name of the initial hospital where the patients had been treated.
The RSPI has tested all six patients for COVID-19. “The test results will be available [on Wednesday],” he added.
Indonesia announced its first confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Monday, with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo saying that Case 1 and Case 2 caught the disease after having been in contact with a Japanese citizen who tested positive in Malaysia on Feb. 27 after visiting Indonesia early last month.
Syahril went on to say that the conditions of Case 1 and Case 2 had been improving. “They can communicate well, their fever has gone down, their coughs are getting better, they don't experience shortness in breath and they have good appetites as well," he said.
The global death toll from COVID-19, a disease caused by a coronavirus first discovered in Wuhan, China, rose to more than 3,100 people on Tuesday. The far-flung virus has infected nearly 90,000 people in more than 60 countries, AFP reported. (nal)
