BEIJING (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – A total of 16 foreign travellers – Malaysians and Bolivians – on a flight with two confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, are placed under isolation and observation in a hotel in Dongli district, Tianjin, in northern China.

The passengers from the Malindo Air Flight No. OD688 from Sabah, Malaysia, arrived in Tianjin on Jan 25.

Upon their arrival, all 31 passengers together with the flight crew members were directly sent to a hotel for isolation, because three passengers on the flight were reported to have fever.

The first case on the flight, confirmed on Jan 26, was a person aged 71 from Wuhan, the epicentre of the epidemic, who had travelled to Malaysia from Jan 19-25.

On Wednesday (Jan 29) morning, Tianjin confirmed its 25th case of novel coronavirus – which was a second person on the same flight. He was a local resident from Wuhan and travelled to Malaysia from Jan 19-25.

Currently, all crew members and passengers have been isolated in the hotel, and the entire hotel has been closed.

According to Zhang Shixi, vice-director of Dongli District Health Committee, the isolated individuals are under strict observation and provided with stringent and high-level medical services from Tianjin Traditional Medicine Hospital.

A total of 13 doctors are in service and the body temperature of the isolated individuals averages from 36-37 deg C, the hospital said.

The hotel is now under regular sanitation and the district provides abundant water, food, cleaning supplies for the isolated individuals. All the rubbish from the hotel is under strict treatment.

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