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The number of arrivals and departures at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport plunged 56 percent in April from the same period last year due to the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). On April 24-30, the number of arrivals and departures stood at 26,693 and 24,739 respectively compared to 185,601 and 185,160 in April last year, said Engking Baihaki, spokesman for PT Angkasa Pura II, which manages the airport, here Friday.
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Indonesia, the first such death reported in the world's fourth most populous nation.
Senior health ministry official Syafei Ahmad told reporters on Monday the dead man was "a Taiwanese, a businessman who came to Indonesia on April 17" and later developed symptoms matching those of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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Indonesia said on Wednesday it had registered its second probable case of SARS, the deadly virus which has broken out over large parts of Asia. "We have a new probable case involving a 65-year-old male in Medan," Syafei Ahmad of the Indonesian health ministry told reporters, referring to Indonesia's third largest city.
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Both inbound and outbound travellers in Indonesia have cancelled trips because of the Iraq war and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in March. At least 95 percent of inbound tourists cancelled visits to Indonesia and 90 percent of outbound travelers from the country dropped travel plans.
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Indonesia said Friday that it has confirmed its first case of a deadly flu-like illness that has swept through Asia. Mariani Reksoprodjo, a health ministry spokeswoman, said a 47-year-old British businessman had been diagnosed with severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. The man, who had visited Hong Kong and Singapore before arriving in Indonesia, has been in a Jakarta hospital since Wednesday, she said. Indonesia now joins 18 other countries that have reported SARS cases. The disease has claimed more than 110 lives worldwide and sickened more than 2,700 people. Mainland China and Hong Kong, Canada, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia have reported deaths, with the highest number in China and Hong Kong.
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Indonesia said on Thursday it had one suspected SARS case and eight other people in the world's fourth most populous nation were under observation for the disease. Health Ministry officials told reporters the patient suspected of having the disease was in hospital in central Java.
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Two persons, including a doctor, died from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), while six nurses suffering from the deadly flu-like disease were hospitalised today in Singapore. "Two SARS patients in intensive care passed away today," the Ministry of Health said in its daily update.
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Indonesia has temporarily suspended the supply of its workers to the Asia Pacific in view of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) crisis in the region, Manpower and Transmigration Minister Jacob Nuwa Wea said. He said the move was part of a series of steps taken by the government to check the spread of the disease into the country.
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Vice President Hamzah Haz declared a deadly flu-like disease a "national threat" today while Indonesia prepared to grant health officials emergency powers to forcibly quarantine and treat patients with the illness. "We must treat this as a national threat," Haz told reporters in Jakarta, the capital. "If not, this will be a new burden for all of us."
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A senior official from Indonesia's health ministry and the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday there were no suspected cases of the deadly flu-like SARS virus in the country. Health Minister Achmad Sujudi told a news conference late on Tuesday there were three suspected SARS cases in Indonesia and another official said one of the patients had later died.
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Indonesia's health ministersaid on Tuesday three suspected cases of the deadly respiratoryvirus had been detected in the country. "There are three cases suspected. We're going to announce alaw on this epidemic in two days," Health Minister AchmadSujudi told a news conference.
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Indonesia has announced measures, including tighter checks on incoming travellers, to prevent the entry of the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) into the country. Indonesia has no known SARS cases although a 17-year-old Indonesian student in Singapore has contracted SARS after visiting Guangdong and Hong Kong, and an Indonesian embassy spokesman in Singapore says an Indonesian crew member has died, possibly of SARS, on a voyage from Hong Kong to Singapore.
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Indonesia has begun issuing health alert cards to warn people using its airports and seaports of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which has hit several countries in the region. The cards, issued to passengers to and from SARS-hit countries such as Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Vietnam, contain general information on the atypical pneumonia, which has triggered a worldwide health alert.
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Indonesia has advised its nationals against travelling to five Asian nations where cases of atypical pneumonia or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) have been reported. The countries are China (Guangdong Province), Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore and Thailand.
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The World Health Organization on Saturday issued a worldwide emergency travel advisory containing guidance for travelers and airlines, citing the quick spread of an atypical pneumonia that now represents "a worldwide threat." More than 150 cases of the pneumonia, dubbed Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), have been reported in the last week, WHO said in a news release.
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