by Theleaders-Online | November 27, 2019 2:26 am
KUCHING: The Sarawak Health Department has denied rumours that there were three deaths in the Sarawak General Hospital recently from influenza, H1N1 as claimed in a viral message on the social media.
Its director Dr Jamilah Hashim said investigations found that the three deaths had clinical samples that were positive for Influenza A, but the infections for all three were not related to each other.
She said further tests for the influenza virus found that the first case tested negative for H1N1, while the results for the other two have not been finalised.
“However, all three cases are in the high risk category. Investigations also found that there are no new reported cases or clusters,” she said in a statement today.
Recently, a person with the name “Nancy Nursery” uploaded a posting on WhatsApp that according to the Head Nurse in the emergency unit at the Sarawak General Hospital, there were three deaths recently at the hospital which were believed to have been caused by the Influenza H1N1 infection, but the cause of the infection was unclear.
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