Health Ministry: Screening being done at international checkpoints following pneumonia outbreak in China

KUALA LUMPUR, 19 Jan -- Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah menyampaikan ucapan pada '26th MDA Scientific Convention and Trade Exhibition' di Pusat Konvensyen Kuala Lumpur hari ini.
--fotoBERNAMA (2019) HAK CIPTA TERPELIHARA

PETALING JAYA: Malaysian health authorities have started screening passengers at international checkpoints following an outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan, China.

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said surveillance for influenza-like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory infection had been intensified at all sentinel locations to prevent an outbreak in Malaysia.