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PUTRAJAYA – Malaysia and Singapore will discuss whether there is a need to impose a travel advisory between the two countries in light of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) situation, says Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad.
The Health Minister said this would be one of the terms of references in the joint working committee to be headed by the Deputy Health Ministers of Malaysia and Singapore.
“Travel advisory is one of the things we want to discuss in detail to address the current situation, particularly in Singapore where they have changed its status alert to ‘Orange’, ” he said during a press conference here on Tuesday (Feb 11).
Prior to this, the minister talked to his Singapore counterpart Gan Kim Yong via a video conference attended by 22 officials from both sides.
Singapore’s Health Ministry raised its response to the 2019-nCoV crisis to ‘Code Orange’ because of “heightened risk”.
Under the Disease Outbreak Response System Condition or Dorscon,”Orange” means the outbreak is deemed to have moderate to high public health impact.
Singapore has 45 confirmed cases of 2019-nCov as of Feb 10.
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