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A Singaporean man, identified only as AA, 61, who was suspected of having contracted the novel coronavirus, which causes Covid-19, died in Batam on Feb 22 in a coronavirus referral hospital.
He had previously gone to an emergency unit of a private hospital with symptoms similar to the coronavirus infection. The Batam Health Agency said he died of “another illness”, not Covid-19, because the patient’s test results for the virus had come back negative.
The man arrived at Awal Bros Hospital in Batam on Feb 20 at noon, hospital spokesperson Cynthia Latuma told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.
Cynthia said that after an emergency unit doctor examined the patient and found that he had a fever and was short of breath, Awal Bros referred AA to BP Batam Hospital, one of Indonesia’s referral hospitals for the novel coronavirus.
“He had just returned from Singapore, and he had a fever. We thought that he might have the coronavirus infection, although we did not know for sure. To mitigate the risks, we sent him to BP Batam Hospital, which is the referral hospital for coronavirus,” she said.
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