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  • Indonesia: Media Report - Potentially Pilgrims Bring Mers-CoV virus (being monitored upon arrival from Saudi Arabia)

    Metrotvnews.com, Bandung: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (Mers-CoV) or respiratory disease due to a new type of corona virus (novel coronavirus), growing rapidly in Saudi Arabia.Indonesian pilgrims potentially infected Mers-CoV, Director of Surveillance, Immunization, Quarantine, and Dimension Health Ministry of Health, Dr. Wiendra Woworuntu, said it is preparing various oversight of Indonesian pilgrims. Including, 30 thousand pilgrims from West Java on arrival from Saudi Arabia. "We made ​​a groove supervision for pilgrims, one of them is when pilgrims arrived at Halim Perdana Kusuma (Jakarta)," said Wiendra when met at one of the hotels in the city Bandung, Monday (28/09/2015). Wiendra said, on arrival in the country, pilgrims will be monitored for 14 days in each area. It acknowledges, in order to anticipate and ascertain if the pilgrims are not infected Mers-CoV. "Pilgrims who arrive will distampel and conducted surveillance for 14 days in the sense that he himself should be diligent checking, especially if the body temperature above 38 degrees Celsius, "he added. In addition, he proposed to the officer who accompanied the pilgrims while in Saudi Arabia to be given extra time off or time off from work in anticipation. The officer is not expected to move out of the house. Because it was feared the officers were not spared from the spread of the virus. "If necessary officers also leave seven days after returning from the Hajj. As a precaution, too, so they do not always too much to communicate directly with the people around him, and also recommended always wear a mask. Because of the spread of this virus through saliva splashes from a cough or sneeze, "he concluded. SAN

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