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The WHO is investing a 100-strong Singapore business event from which three people are already infected

The entrance to the Grand Hyatt Singapore hotel, where a business meeting attended by over a hundred participants that has been linked to several novel coronavirus cases in Malaysia and South Korea was held, in Singapore on February 6 2020. Picture: AFP/ROSLAN RAHMAN

“The WHO is co-ordinating with relevant ministries of health in relation to it,” spokesperson Olivia Lawe-Davies said in response to questions from Reuters. “As countries are stepping up surveillance, the detection of more cases of local transmission can be expected.” Malaysia offered the first revelation when it confirmed the case of a citizen who had attended the meeting at the plush Grand Hyatt hotel near the city-state’s Orchard Road shopping district.

 

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