COVID-19 THE “PLAGUE”: Day 133: West Java.- Infant in Bogor Becomes Indonesia’s Youngest Covid-19 Patient
Health workers take a blood sample from a motorcyclist during a drive-through testing for Covid-19 at Pajajaran Stadium in Bogor, West Java, on Tuesday. (JG Photo/Yudha Baskoro)
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BRUNEI- No new COVID-19 cases reported for three consecutive days
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West Java.– Infant in Bogor Becomes Indonesia’s Youngest Covid-19 Patient- Indonesia now has 2,738 confirmed Covid-19 cases with 221 deaths.
Health workers take a blood sample from a motorcyclist during a drive-through testing for Covid-19 at Pajajaran Stadium in Bogor, West Java, on Tuesday. (JG Photo/Yudha Baskoro)
Bogor, West Java. A three-month-old baby boy in Bogor, West Java, has tested positive for coronavirus to become the youngest known Covid-19 patient in Indonesia, a local health official said on Wednesday.
The baby was admitted to Husada Hospital for persistent fever around two weeks ago and doctors took a specimen for a swab test.
As a precaution, the baby was treated at the hospital for a full fortnight, which experts believe was the maximum incubation period for the virus.
“The baby’s clinical symptoms, the fever and persistent coughing, had eased at the end of the incubation period, so he was discharged from the hospital,” Bogor’s Covid-19 task force spokesperson Syarifah Sopiah said.
But shortly after that, the result from the swab test came back positive, which prompted a second swab test. The baby was again placed under isolation at the same hospital, she said.
It was not immediately known how the baby contracted the virus. Medical officials are currently conducting rapid tests on his parents, close relatives and people in the neighborhood, she said.
The government has not reported infections among children in its daily Covid-19 updates before the case in Bogor.
While adults make up an overwhelming majority of the global cases, children and infants are prone to the infection too, health experts have suggested.
But there is no scientific finding yet to suggest that an infant can catch the disease in the womb.
According to the latest figure, Indonesia now has 2,738 confirmed Covid-19 cases with 221 deaths.
Daily new cases have been increasing by 200 or more in recent days as more tests are conducted across the country.
Bogor, one of the satellite cities in Greater Jakarta, has 23 confirmed cases and three fatalities as of Tuesday./ BY :VENTO SAUDALE.
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PETALING JAYA, Malaysia- No new Covid-19 cases in Petaling Jaya for the past two days.
PETALING JAYA: Being third on the red zone list of Covid-19 cases, it was a relief for police here when they learnt that there had not been any fresh cases in the Petaling Jaya police district over the past two days.
Petaling Jaya police chief ACP Nik Ezanee Mohd Faisal said today that the zero rise in statistics for Covid-19 cases in the district is an achievement that proved the enforcement of the movement control order (MCO) is yielding favourable results.
“It is also motivation to security personnel who are out there on duty enforcing the MCO come rain or shine, for all the adversity and challenges they face, their efforts are not in vain. Let us continue striving to maintain it at zero.” he said.
Covid-19 cases in the Petaling district was reported to be at 296 yesterday, the third highest area nationwide.
Lembah Pantai topped the list at 386 cases followed by Hulu Langat with 324 cases./ CHARLES RAMENDRAN /
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MANILA, Philippines: COVID-19 Tracker as of April 7, 2020
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SINGAPORE- 106 new Covid-19 cases in Singapore, 39 linked to known clusters at foreign worker dormitories
SINGAPORE – Singapore reported 106 cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday (April 7) said the Ministry of Health (MOH) in its daily update.
Of these, 103 are local cases and three are imported. They bring the total number of cases here to 1,481.
Among the local cases, links to existing clusters have been established for 52 cases, of which 39 are linked to clusters at foreign worker dormitories.
There are 10 cases that have been linked to other cases. Contact tracing is being done for the remaining 41 cases.
While no new patient clusters were reported on Tuesday, the existing cluster at S11 Dormitory in Punggol added 10 more cases. It now has 98 cases – the largest cluster here so far.
Five more cases are linked to Westlite Toh Guan dormitory, which now has 34 cases, while four more cases are linked to Toh Guan Dormitory, which now has 18 cases. Both dormitories are located in Toh Guan Road East.
On Monday, Toh Guan Dormitory was gazetted as an isolation area – the third foreign worker dormitory to receive this order after the S11 Dormitory and Westlite in Toh Guan. This means its workers will be quarantined in their rooms for 14 days.
The cluster with the biggest increase in linked cases on Tuesday was Sungei Tengah Lodge in Choa Chu Kang Road, which added 12 more cases for a total of 18 cases.
Other clusters at dormitories – Tampines Dormitory, Cochrane Lodge I and Cochrane Lodge II – also had more patients linked to them, adding between one to eight new cases.
Aside from the dormitory clusters, among the new cases announced are three women aged 88 to 97 who are part of the Lee Ah Mooi Old Age Home cluster, which now has 16 cases.
MOH also gave updates on three patients from the public healthcare sector, who all had not travelled recently to countries or regions affected by the coronavirus outbreak.
One of them, announced on Monday, is a 22-year-old Singapore General Hospital nurse. She had not gone to work after she started showing symptoms last Saturday.
The second patient is another nurse, a 35-year-old woman from Ng Teng Fong General Hospital. She went to work for a few hours on Sunday, the same day she reported onset of symptoms.
The third patient is a 61-year-old healthcare assistant at Hougang Polyclinic. The woman did not go to work after she had symptoms last Wednesday.
MOH also said that 33 patients were discharged on Tuesday. To date, a total of 377 cases have fully recovered from the infection and have been discharged from hospitals or community isolation facilities.
Of the 627 confirmed cases still in hospital, most are stable or improving, with 29 in critical condition in the intensive care unit. Six have died from complications due to Covid-19 infection.
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HÀ NỘI, Viet Nam- Four more patients with COVID-19 recover, total hits 126
HÀ NỘI — Four more patients with COVID-19 have recovered and been discharged from two treatment facilities in the south, lifting the country’s total number of recoveries to 126.
Two of the patients are African while the other two are Vietnamese nationals.
Three were treated at the Cần Giờ COVID-19 Treatment Hospital and one at the Củ Chi field hospital.
The recovered patients in full are:
Patient 125, female, 22, South African, was admitted to the Cần Giờ COVID-19 Treatment Hospital on March 22. During treatment, the patient had two tests and both showed negative results for SARS-CoV-2 on April 5 and 6.
Patient 126, male, 28, South African, was admitted to the Cần Giờ COVID-19 Treatment Hospital on March 23. During treatment, the patient had two tests and both showed negative results for SARS-CoV-2 on April 5 and 6.
Patient 152, female, 27, Vietnamese, was admitted to the Cần Giờ COVID-19 Treatment Hospital on March 23. During treatment, the patient was tested twice and both showed negative results for SARS-CoV-2 on April 5 and 6.
Patient 153, female, 60, Vietnamese, was admitted to the Củ Chi field hospital on March 24. During treatment, the patient was tested three times and all test results showed negative for SARS-CoV-2 on March 26, 28 and 30.
The above cases will continue to be isolated and monitored for the next 14 days.
As of 6am today, the Ministry of Health had confirmed 251 COVID-19 patients, including 156 foreigners, making up 62.6 per cent of the total patients in Việt Nam. The remaining 95 are secondary infection cases and no deaths have been recorded. — VNS
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