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Feb 5, 2020
World News: Three businessmen contract coronavirus after Singapore business conference - Asian officials
SEOUL/SINGAPORE
(Reuters) - At least three Asian businessmen who attended an
international conference at a Singapore hotel have contracted the
coronavirus, Malaysian and South Korean authorities said on Wednesday.
The Grand Hyatt hotel in Singapore February 5, 2020. REUTERS/Tim Chong
The cases indicate the virus is now spreading through human-to-human contact outside China.
Malaysia
said its first infected citizen - a 41-year-old man - had attended a
meeting of several international delegations, including those from China
where the virus originated, in Singapore in mid-January.
South Korea also reported two confirmed cases of South Koreans who visited the same business conference in Singapore.
A
38-year-old South Korean who came into contact with the Malaysian is
infected, Jeong Eun-kyeon, director of Korea Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (KCDC) said on Wednesday.
The two had a buffet meal together with several other Koreans during the conference, Korea’s Joongang Ilbo newspaper reported.
Later
on Wednesday, another citizen, a 36-year-old man, who was under
self-quarantine since Tuesday, was tested positive for the virus, KCDC
said.
Singapore’s health ministry said on Tuesday the Malaysian
had attended a business meeting with Chinese nationals at the Grand
Hyatt Hotel and it was working to identify others at risk.
Authorities have not commented on the nature of the business gathering nor which industry it involved.
A
spokesman for the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Gerald Kheng, confirmed that the
Malaysian had stayed at the hotel for a week in mid-January but he did
comment on meetings held at the hotel.
The Singaporean health
ministry has not told the hotel how, where or when the Malaysian was
infected with the virus, Kheng said. The hotel had been deep cleaned and
it was not aware of any other cases among its hotel guests or staff, he
said.
Singapore - one of the worst hit countries outside China
in the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) - has
reported 24 cases of coronavirus, including some local transmission
cases.
The city-state says no evidence has emerged of widespread
community spread but it announced new precautionary measures on Tuesday
including halting group activities such as school assemblies.
Several
firms in Singapore have suspended business and media events, including a
big travel fair, but the Singapore Airshow is set to go ahead next week
albeit on a smaller scale.
The World Health Organisation has
said cases of human-to-human transmission outside China are deeply
concerning and could signal a much larger outbreak.
The death toll from the epidemic neared 500 on Wednesday.
Reporting
by Josh Smith and Sangmi Cha in Seoul, Joseph Sipalan in Kuala Lumpur
and John Geddie in Singapore; Additional reporting by Joori Roh in
Seoul; Editing by Angus MacSwan
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