Selamat datang virus Ebola ke 1Malaysia...

Pelajar dikuarantin, suspek Ebola di Kuching...

Virus pembunuh Ebola disyaki memasuki Malaysia ekoran laporan media tempatan bahawa sekurang-kurangnya seorang pelajar asing dikuarantin di Kucing.

Memetik sumber, The Borneo Post melaporkan, dua pelajar disyaki dijangkiti virus itu dimasukkan ke sebuah hospital swasta pada Ahad selepas mengadu batuk-batuk dan demam panas.

“Oleh kerana pusat perubatan swasta itu tidak mempunyai wad pengasingan, mereka dipindahkan ke wad pengasingan Hospital Besar Sarawak,” menurut laporan itu.

Bagaimanapun, akhbar United Daily melaporkan hanya seorang pelajar sedang dipantau.

Malay Malay Online melaporkan Pengarah Kesihatan Dr Zulkifli Jantan berkata, siasatan berhubung perkara itu sedang dijalankan.

Ketika dihubungi, Jabatan Kesihatan Sarawak memberitahu Malaysiakini bahawa sidang media akan diadakan berhubung perkara itu hari ini.

Virus itu yang menyebabkan demam berdarah itu kini sudah membunuh 1,800 orang di Afrika Barat setakar 31 Ogos lalu.- mk

Gov't confirms suspected Ebola case in Kuching...

A 24-year-old Zimbabwean student is under investigation for Ebola and has been admitted at an isolation ward of the Sarawak General Hospital since last night, Sarawak Assistant Minister for Public Health Dr Jerip Susil said today.

He said the male student from a private university campus in Kuching had developed cough, severe body ache and high fever, among the early symptoms related to Ebola, after being in contact with a group of Nigerian students who had just returned to Sarawak from their home country.

"He (the Zimbabwean student) had been referred to a private specialist hospital here (but) because of the symptoms and because of him having contacts with the Nigerian students, he was later referred to the Sarawak General Hospital," he told a hastily-called press conference at his office in Petra Jaya.

He said the Nigerian students had been found to be in good health but the state health authority is keeping them in isolation at the campus for the time being pending further medical checks on them.

"Even though they are healthy we also do an extensive investigation on all the Nigerian students who had gone back to Nigeria and come back to our State," he said.
  
Jerip (left) said samples obtained from the affected student were currently being analysed by the State Epidemiology Unit and it might take at least about a week before the result from the analysis could be obtained.

He said the public should not panic as the State Medical Department was taking all the required disease preventive measures.

"We want to be very sure... even though we have this situation (where it is not confirmed yet whether the student has Ebola) we are putting ourselves in a high precautionary state," he added.- Bernama

Suspek Bocor Kertas UPSR... 

Polis menerima empat hari perintah reman terhadap empat individu, termasuk guru besar sebuah sekolah di Pulau Pinang yang kini disiasat mengikut Akta Rahsia Rasmi berhubung kebocoran kertas soalan Ujian Penilaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR).

Suspek lain adalah dua guru dari Pulau Pinang dan seorang ejen insurans dari Kuala Lumpur.

Perintah reman itu dikeluarkan selepas polis membawa suspek berusia lingkungan 30-an hingga 50-an di hadapan Majistret Nur Dahlia Azmi di Putrajaya hari ini.

Peguam mereka Ester Tan Siew Choo berkata, polis memohon permit selama tujuh hari, namun majistret hanya memberikan empat hari.

Tan berkata, suspek disiasat mengikut Seksyen 8(1) Akta Rahsia Rasmi (OSA) 1972 kerana mendedahkan kandungan kertas berkenaan kepada orang lain.

Ketua Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah Kuala Lumpur Senior Assistant Commissioner Gan Kong Meng berkata, 12 individu ditahan untuk membantu siasatan.

Kertas soalan matapelajaran Sains dengan kod 018, 028 dan 038, yang dijadualkan pada Khamis ditunda berikutan kebocoran berkenaan.

Pada Khamis, kertas soalan mata pelajaran English dengan kod 014/1 dan 014/2 juga didapati bocor sekaligus mencetuskan kemarahan orang ramai.

Menteri Pendidikan Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin dan Menteri Pendidikan II Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh juga mengeluarkan permohonan maaf disebabkan kebocoran itu.

Muhyiddin pada Jumaat juga mengarahkan penggantungan serta-merta Pengarah Lembaga Peperiksaan Malaysia Dr Na'imah Ishak dan timbalannya Dr Wan Ilias Wan Salleh.

Kebocoran itu mengakibatkan 473,175 pelajar Darjah 6 di seluruh negara mengambil semula kertas soalan tersebut pada 30 September. - tmi

Headmaster among four probed under Official Secrets Act for UPSR leak 

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