KUALA LUMPUR: A five-year-old Jordanian boy is among the four patients who have been confirmed to be negative from the coronavirus known as 2019-nCoV.
Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the child was receiving treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kota Kinabalu.
“He had been vacationing with his parents in Sabah. His parents are taking their doctorate studies at the Huazhong University (of Science and Technology) in Wuhan, China.
“Viral detection and confirmation tests conducted on the child have revealed that he tested negative for 2019-nCoV,” he said in a statement issued today.
He said the second case involved a 30-year-old Malaysian man, while a third case involved a 24-year-old Malaysian woman, and both of them have a history of traveling to China.
“Both of them are being treated at the Sungai Buloh Hospital and they have both tested negative for the 2019-nCoV.”
The fourth case involved a 16-year-old Chinese male teenager who was on holiday with his family in Sabah.
Dr Noor Hisham said the teenager was still receiving treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kota Kinabalu and was in stable condition.
He said tests for 2019-nCoV on the teenager also turned out negative.
It was previously reported that the National Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre (CPRC) had received these four suspected cases of the coronavirus since Wednesday.
The situation occurred amid increased fears of the virus, which has killed 17 people in China.
Flights to Wuhan have also been cancelled while China had on Thursday ordered the lock down of almost 20 million people in two cities at the centre of the deadly virus outbreak.