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COVID 19: Family quarantined at W. Kalimantan hospital after returning from virus-stricken S. Korea
A family of four is under isolation at a hospital in West Kalimantan after a 5-year-old child in the family developed a cough and a fever following their recent trip to South Korea, the country with the highest number of COVID-19 cases outside its epicenter of China.
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Medical officers check the special isolation room to treat patients with severe pneumonia due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus at Kraton Regional General Hospital (RSUD Kraton) in Pekalongan, Central Java, on Feb. 5. The Pekalongan regency administration, together with RSUD Kraton has prepared a number of isolation rooms and a special medical team consisting of 12 general practitioners, 24 nurses and pulmonary specialists along with internal medicine specialists. (Antara/Harviyan Perdana Putr)
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family of four has been put in isolation at a hospital in Singkawang, West Kalimantan after the family’s five-year-old child exhibited symptoms consistent with COVID-19 following a recent trip to South Korea.
The four are currently under isolation at Abdul Azis Regional General Hospital (RSUD Abdul Azis) after returning from Seoul, South Korea, 10 days ago.
With over 5,700 confirmed cases as of Thursday, South Korea is the country with the second-largest number of COVID-19 cases, behind only mainland China, the epicenter of the outbreak.
The 5 year-old child is suffering from a cough, runny nose and fever and had initially been treated at RSUD Bengkayang, but was then transferred to RSUD Abdul Aziz on Wednesdaty after the fever got worse.
Other members of the family were also put under quarantine at the hospital as they recently traveled to a country hard hit by COVID-19.
"These patients are being treated as suspected [COVID-19 patients] because they returned [from Seoul] 10 days ago. They'll be isolated for three to four days, because the incubation period [of the virus] is 14 days," RSUD Abdul Azis Singkawang director Ruchanihadi said as quoted by kompas.com.
He added that the hospital had taken the family's blood samples, while swabs would be taken on Thursday.
"We'll send the samples to Jakarta for analysis," he said.
Indonesia has reported two confirmed COVID-19 cases, both of whom are currently being treated at the Sulianti Saroso Infectious Diseases Hospital in Jakarta. (ars)
