Patient in Sabah tested negative for coronavirus - MOH

Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 23 -- The Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed  that tests conducted on a suspected coronavirus (2019-nCoV) patient who is being treated at an isolation ward in a hospital in Sabah found the person to be negative for the virus.

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the patient was found with symptoms of being infected by influenza A.

He said the patient is recovering and in stable condition.

“This is to inform that the results of the detection and validation for 2019-nCoV virus on the patient by IMR confirmed that the patient is negative for Novel Coronavirus infection,” he said in a statement today.

As such, he said, the four suspected 2019-nCoV cases reported so far, comprising two cases in Sabah and two cases in Selangor, all tested negative for the virus.

In a statement issued earlier, Dr Noo Hisham said the Health Ministry, through the National Crisis Preparedness and Response Center (CPRC),  has received four suspected cases of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), involving two cases each in Selangor and Sabah.

-- BERNAMA