The Macau government said in a statement yesterday it is keeping in close contact with the national authorities responsible for public health and disease control on the latest developments, particularly quarantine methods and appropriate treatment, relating to the outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province.
According to the statement released by the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS), the government received a notice from the National Health Commission yesterday explaining that preliminary investigations had identified the pathogen involved in the Wuhan outbreak as a newly-categorised coronavirus.
Macau’s Inter-departmental Taskforce on Pneumonia of Unknown Cause – a name it was given by the government before this week’s preliminary identification of the respective pathogen – is coordinating the local response to the Wuhan outbreak, the statement pointed out.
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