Coronavirus hits Bali: Chinese tourist tests positive after holidaying on the party island as two others are kept in isolation in hospital
By Charlie Moore For Daily Mail Australia
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A Chinese tourist has reportedly tested positive to coronavirus after travelling to Bali.
The man tested positive on February 5 after returning to China on January 28, according to the Jakarta Post.
Officials believe the man from Wuhan, where the disease originated, only caught the virus after he returned home and was not infected while in Bali.
The man tested positive on February 5 after returning to China in late January. Pictured: Health workers in a simulation exercise in Bali on Wednesday
Bali Provincial Health Agency chief, Ketut Suarjaya, said: ‘I think there is a small possibility that he was infected by the virus before he visited Bali.
‘However, we will recheck all the facts. We will follow up the information.
‘We will trace all the places he had visited. Of course, we will raise our alert.’
The news that the patient, named as Jin, had been to Bali was announced by the Huainan Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Chinese social media site Weibo on February 6.
Meanwhile, two other Chinese tourists with flu-like symptoms are being kept in isolation in Denpasar’s Sanglah Hospital while awaiting test results.
A Chinese tourist has reportedly tested positive to coronavirus after travelling to Bali. Pictured: Health workers in a simulation exercise in Bali on Wednesday
The virus is hammering tourism in Indonesia, where thousands of Australians travel for holidays every year.
The island of Bali alone has seen 20,000 cancellations, said Hariyadi Sukamdani, head of Indonesia’s hotels and restaurants association.
The official said there is concern of a sustained slump because from now until April is usually when bookings for summer holidays usually are made.
AUSTRALIANS WITH THE CORONAVIRUS
NEW SOUTH WALES: 4
January 25
Three men aged 43, 53, and 35 who had recently travelled to China are confirmed to have contracted the disease.
Two flew in from Wuhan while the other arrived in Sydney from Shenzhen, south China.
They are being treated in isolation at Westmead Hospital and are in stable condition.
January 27
A 21-year-old woman is identified as the fourth person to test positive for the illness in NSW.
The woman, a student at UNSW, flew into Sydney International Airport on flight MU749 on January 23 and presented to the emergency department 24 hours later after developing flu-like symptoms.
She is being treated in isolation at Westmead Hospital.
VICTORIA: 4
January 25
A Chinese national aged in his 50s becomes the first confirmed case of the coronavirus in Australia.
The man flew to Melbourne on China Southern flight CZ321 from Wuhan via Guangzhou on January 19.
He is now in quarantined isolation at Monash Hospital in Clayton in Melbourne’s east.
January 29
A Victorian man in his 60s is diagnosed with the coronavirus.
He became unwell on January 23 – two days after returning from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak.
The man was confirmed as positive on January 29 and was subsequently seen by doctors at the Monash Medical Centre. He was assessed as being well enough to stay at home.
January 30
A woman in her 40s is found to have coronavirus.
She was visiting from China and mostly spent time with her family.
She is being treated at Royal Melbourne Hospital.
February 1
A woman in her 20s in Melbourne is found to have the virus
QUEENSLAND: 5
January 29
Queensland confirms its first case after a 44-year-old Chinese national wass diagnosed with the virus.
He is being treated at Gold Coast University Hospital.
January 30
A 42-year-old Chinese woman who was travelling in the same Wuhan tour group as the 44-year-old man tests positive. She is in Gold Coast University Hospital in stable condition.
February 4
An eight-year-old boy has been diagnosed coronavirus. He is also from the tour group where the other Queensland cases came from
February 5
The case was found in a 37-year-old man, who was a member of a group of nine Chinese tourists in quarantine on the Gold Coast
February 6
A 37-year-old woman has been diagnosed with coronavirus from the same travel group that flew to Queensland from Melbourne on January 27
SOUTH AUSTRALIA: 2
February 1
A Chinese couple in their 60s who arrived in Adelaide from Wuhan to visit relatives are confirmed to have coronavirus.
CHINA: 2
January 30
Two Australians have been confirmed as having the virus in Wuhan itself. Australia has raised the travel alert level to ‘do not travel’ for the city of Wuhan – the epicentre of the outbreak – and for the entire Hubei province.
Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy says unless people have contact with someone who is unwell and has come from that part of China, there is no need for current concern.
JAPAN: 4
February 10
Four Australians are among 65 newly-confirmed coronavirus cases aboard the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship docked at Yokohama.
