A member of the media looks out toward the Diamond Princess cruise ship (left) that has more than 3,000 people on board as it sits anchored in quarantine off the port of Yokohama on Feb. 4, a day after it arrived with passengers feeling ill. - AFP
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The North Sumatra Health Agency has dismissed rumours that the death of a South Korean working aboard a Sunshine cruise ship in the province’s waters was caused by a disease related to the Wuhan coronavirus.
The agency’s head, Alwi Hasibuan, said the Korean citizen -- identified as Jung Seungwong, 21 – did not die from being infected by the Covid-19 coronavirus because he did not show any symptoms of fever or shortness of breath beforehand.
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