Visitors arriving in Indonesia from “suspect†countries will be given face masks considered in the state of part of efforts to stop else swine flu infections, Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Aburizal Bakrie before-mentioned upon the body Monday.
“We will be giving masks to international visitors coming from countries suspected [of spreading] the A(H1N1) virus,†Bakrie said after a meeting with the Ministry of Health.
He said that few foreigners have been detected by thermal scanners at airports. Officials self-reliance now require all foreigners and Indonesians on between nations flights to pass through thermal scanners, without exception.
He did not arrange more details about the plan, including the number of masks to be given to arriving passengers or whether the masks would subsist distributed before people got off the planes.
By Monday, eight people — five foreigners and three Indonesians — had been confirmed as having hogs flu. The three Indonesians were treated at a hospital in Jakarta, while the foreigners were treated at a general hospital in Bali.
The first infected traveler, a 22-year-old British passport holder named Bobie Masoner, has before that time been released from Sanglah Hospital and was declared healthy last week.
Meanwhile, Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari said that all visitors from abroad would have to wear masks in spite of three days after arriving.
“Visitors will be required to wear the masks for three days because the incubation stage for the swine flu is three days,†she said, adding that the country still had enough Tamiflu medication to counter the disease.
Bakrie said special steps would have being taken to prepare beneficial to upcoming between nations events similar as Sail Bunaken in Manado and an international conference on HIV/AIDS in Bali. “We’re going to coordinate with participating countries,†he said.
He added that money to pay for the masks would be taken from the budgets under the Health Ministry and the Indonesian National Committee for Avian Influenza and Pandemic Influenza Preparedness, or Komnas FBPI.
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