Ministry steps up Zika monitoring


Sign of the timesA traveller walking past a travel advisory display on the Zika virus in Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang. According to local reports, the Singapore Ministry of Health (MOH) and National Environment Agency said that a Malaysian woman living in Singapore was the first patient to be infected by locally-transmitted Zika virus. — AP

KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry is stepping up monitoring efforts at the two access points in Johor in response to news that a Malaysian woman was found to be infected with the Zika virus in Singapore.

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah assured the public that the health ministries of both countries are in constant communication on the latest updates in the case to make sure that preventive measures and control can be taken effectively.

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