Indonesia on Corona Virus Alert

 Indonesia  Corona Virus Alert
 Friday, February 15, 2013
The Indonesian government increased awareness of the spread of the virus Corona. It follows the reporting of the Middle East people are currently being treated at a hospital in London, who confirmed Corona virus. The report received the Director General of Disease Control and Environmental Health, Ministry of Health, Tjandra Yoga Aditana this morning.

'' Although the virus was detected in the Arabian Peninsula, but the Indonesian government also need to be vigilant,'' he said in Surabaya, on Friday (02/15/2013).

He said the precautions taken is to alert the 49 hospitals in all ports in Indonesia to detect the flow of passengers who indicated Corona virus.

'' All the laboratories of the Ministry of Health was also alerted to diagnose the symptoms of the virus,'' he said.

Tjandra confirmed, Corona virus so far only in the Arabian Peninsula, outside the Arab world have reported no victims, especially in Indonesia. He is also grateful to the last Hajj pilgrims from Indonesia there is no indication that this virus contaminated.

According to the World helath Organization (WHO) or the United Nations World Health Organization, Corona virus is the latest disease to the human respiratory tract infection caused by a virus from the family SARS virus, coronavirus. The first case of the virus that struck the Saudi Arabia (60) who died with pneumonia and citizens of Qatar (49) with a history of travel to Saudi Arabia.

Corona virus is not easily transmissible between humans, but only causes respiratory infection in the form of light, such as coughs or colds, although there are also a cause of death. http://regional.kompas.com/read/2013/02/15/15240422/Indonesia.Waspada.Virus.Corona