Onus is on passengers to contact Health Ministry

NST: KUALA LUMPUR: There will be no efforts taken by Malaysia Airlines (MAS) to contact the 199 passengers on board flight MH091 which carried the first Malaysian infected by the influenza A virus.
According to a MAS spokesperson the onus is on the passengers who embarked the same flight as the infected student, to contact the Health Ministry at 03-88810200 or 03-888 10300.
"The information has been spread on all media channels including newspapers so its up to the passengers to call in, we will not be looking for them."
"However we are working closely with the Health Ministry on the matter," said Malaysia Airlines Director of Operations, Datuk Tajuden Abu Bakar.
Yesterday a woman believed to be the friend of the first patient was confirmed to be infected with the virus and is being warded at the Bukit Mertajam hospital in Penang. It is believed that both of them were infected with the virus from the United States.
They arrived from the United States on May 13 at 7.15am after a transit at Arlanda, Stockholm where 80 passengers disembarked and from Arlanda 199 people, comprising 184 passengers and 15 crew members, embarked.
The national carrier has since been in contact with the Arlanda authorities to provide them with the passenger list for monitoring purposes.
As a precautionary measure, 15 crew members who arrived in Kuala Lumpur with the infected passenger had been located and taken off the roster for a seven-day home quarantine.
MAS has also clarified that none of its pilots were warded as reported yesterday.
Meanwhile, checks at the Sungai Buloh Hospital showed that security was tight following the first Malaysian victim to be warded there since Friday.
The media was not allowed in and hospital personnel were tight-lipped on any developments concerning the patient.
Pressmen were only allowed to be stationed outside the hospital and had to wait by the roadside.
However the hospital authorities provided facial masks for the media.
Several ambulances from various hospitals were seen shuttling in and out of the Sungai Buloh Hospital and the personnel driving these vehicles were seen wearing protective masks and were fully clothed with protective gear.