Covid-19 Indonesian govt downplays reports of Chinese tourist who tested positive after Bali trip

Health workers wearing protective gear take part in an exercise in handling a suspected patient at Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on Feb. 12. - AFP

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The Health Ministry has played down the news that a Chinese tourist who traveLled from Wuhan to Bali last month tested positive for the novel coronavirus a few days after he left the resort island.

The Health Ministry’s disease control and environmental health directorate general secretary, Achmad Yurianto, said on Thursday (Feb 13) that the patient could have been infected in Shanghai after he returned from Bali and reiterated that Bali had yet to detect any positive coronavirus cases. Therefore, Bali’s condition was “insufficient to infect people”.