KUALA LUMPUR, July 4 — A total of 239 influenza A(H1N1) patients have been discharged from hospitals nationwide while 87 patients were still warded, said Director-General of Health Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican.
He said Sungai Buloh Hospital had the largest number of patients at 28 followed by Kuala Lumpur Hospital (17), Penang Hospital (10), Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital, Klang (six), Sultanah Aminah Hospital, Johor Baru (five).
Other hospitals, Tuanku Jaafar Hospital, Seremban has four patients, and Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital, Alor Setar, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kota Kinabalu Hospital, and Batu Pahat Hospital (all three each), and Sarawak General Hospital (two).
One patient each were placed at Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital, Ipoh, Tawau Hospital, Sultanah Nur Zahirah Hospital, Kuala Terengganu, Tengku Ampuan Afzan Hospital, Kuantan, Sultan Ahmad Shah Temerloh and Raja Perempuan Zainab II Hospital, Kota Baharu, Dr Mohd Ismail said in a statement.
“The number of people placed under home quarantine for being in contact with the patients were 1,016 but none of them have developed the flu symptom. No new school had been closed due to the infection,” he said.
Dr Mohd Ismail said 35 new cases had been detected until 8am today with 24 of them being imported cases and 11 local infections.
He said 28 of the patients were Malaysians while the others were Indonesians (three), Australians (three) and Singaporean (one).
Of the imported cases, he said 12 of them had visited Jakarta followed by Bangkok (five), Melbourne (three), Singapore (two), and Manila and London, one each, he said.
He said all 11 local infection cases involved participants of the four-day Asian Pacific Pharmaceutical Conference in Penang that concluded on June 30. They were six foreigners and five Malaysians.
In KUALA KANGSAR, a Thai student, who arrived here with his teammates for a football friendly with the Malay College Kuala Kangsar (MCKK) today, was confirmed with the swine flu.
A source said the student and several teammates, who had been in contact with him, had been placed under quarantine at the MCKK.
The student was believed to have developed influenza A(H1N1) symptoms on arrival at the Bayan Lepas International Airport yesterday, he said when contacted today.
Perak Health, Local Government, Environment and Public Transport Committee chairman Datuk Dr Mah Hang Soon confirmed the case.
Meanwhile, Dr Mohd Ismail said the number of confirmed cases of the flu worldwide had climbed to 90,218, including 383 deaths in 126 countries with 9,189 new cases and 43 deaths reported.
Five new countries joined the list, namely Netherlands-Aruba (five), and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cook Islands, Palau and Uganda (all one each).
Five countries had reported the highest jump in the cases – the United States (6,185 cases), Mexico (1,234), the United Kingdom (1,089), Singapore (91) and New Zealand (87). – Bernama
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