“Based on current information, there is not evidence of effective and sustained community transmission,” Lawe Davies said in an email Wednesday. “As countries are stepping up surveillance, the detection of more cases of local transmission can be expected.”
(Feb 6): Coronavirus cases in South Korea and Malaysia tied to a business meeting in Singapore attended by visitors from China have prompted an investigation into the infection’s international spread.
A 41-year-old man in Malaysia and two people in South Korea were infected with the so-called 2019-nCoV virus after attending a meeting at a Singapore hotel in the third week of January, health authorities said. The World Health Organization is coordinating with Singapore’s Ministry of Health in relation to the event, said Olivia Lawe Davies, the agency’s Manila-based regional communications manager.
