YANGON-Coronavirus suspected patients were allowed to be discharged from the hospitals including Waibargi hospital but 16 patients are still under investigation, according to the Ministry of Health and Sports.

A 38-year old man from Taungtha Township, Mandalay Region, returned from China on February 7th. But, he had a high fever on February 11th. So, he is being quarantined at the Taungtha People’s Hospital and samples of nasopharyngeal swabs will be taken from him to send to a reference laboratory to confirm where he is infected with the 2019 novel coronavirus or not.

At present, the suspected patient has no symptoms yet.

Likewise, a 29-year-old woman who shared the same room with a coronavirus infected person in Singapore, is being quarantined at the Waibargi Hospital in Yangon since the beginning of February 10th.

The patient who was in close contact with the suspected patient is the 41st confirmed one in Singapore. Currently, the quarantined patient shows no symptoms until the evening of February 10th. A total of 14 persons who had close contact with the patient are under home quarantine.

According to the Laboratory result received on February 11th, the suspected patient and five quarantined patients showed no systems.

Therefore, the authorities allowed him to discharge from the relevant hospitals and gave the detailed instructions.

The virus which originates in Wuhan, capital of China’s Hubei province had killed 1,017 people as of February 12th, surpassing the number of fatalities in the 2002-03 SARS epidemic.

An advance team of World Health Organization (WHO) medical experts arrived in Beijing, China to help investigate the coronavirus outbreak.

The WHO has announced that the disease caused by the new killer coronavirus has finally been given an official name-COVID-19.