JOHOR BARU: Johor Jaya assemblyman Liow Cai Tung is urging for more information on Zika virus to be disseminated to Johor Baru residents as the city is close to Singapore.
Liow, whose constituency is now home to a Zika virus case, fears that people still lack knowledge over the disease.
Liow was met during a walkabout in Taman Desa Harmoni, where she distributed around 2,000 pamphlets on the Zika virus.
Also present at the walkabout was Penggaram state assemblyman Gan Peck Cheng.
The New Straits Times also visited the home of the 27-year-old pregnant woman who has been infected with Zika, but the house was locked and nobody was home.
A neighbour, who requested anonymity, said the victim and her husband lived at the house for almost a year and was renting the place.
"We hardly spoke and I only got to know that she had contracted Zika. I hope she and the child she's carrying will be alright," she said.
She said she did not know much about her neighbours as they seldom talked and when they spoke, it was only to greet each other.
"I think this is their first child as I did not see any children in their house," she said.
Another neighbour, who also declined to be named, said she saw health inspectors coming to the house several times in the last few days. The team carried out inspections and fogging around the house.
It is learnt that the couple is being quarantined at a government hospital here.
A spokesman from the state health department said test results on the woman's husband, who had also displayed Zika symptoms, would be known tomorrow.
His blood and urine samples are still undergoing tests at the Institute of Medical Research in Kuala Lumpur.
"The test is tedious and results may take between 48 to 72 hours," said the spokesman.
The spokesman said government hospital and clinics has been given a directive to carry out Zika tests to pregnant woman who display symptoms.