Good News For Medan Residents, Patient B117 Is Healed

Spokesperson for the Task Force for Handling COVID-19 in North Sumatra Province, Dr. Aris Yudhariansyah (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Spokesperson for the North Sumatra Province COVID-19 Handling Task Force, Dr. Aris Yudhariansyah, admitted that there was a patient with the B117 corona virus mutation in Medan, but had recovered.

"The patient is healthy, because the case occurred in January," he said in Medan, reported by Antara, Wednesday, March 9.

Aris Yudhariansyah explained, in January, North Sumatra Province sent swab samples of patients confirmed with a CT Value below 25 to Jakarta.

The sample, said Aris, was examined at Litbangkes and it was found that one sample showed a mutation of the B117 virus.

This finding led to the tracing of the confirmed patient. "So it is true, but the infected patient has been declared cured," he said.

Aris said the data showed that the patient with the B117 corona virus mutation had no travel history to England.

"What is certain is that tracing is still being carried out, including to the people around him, close contact and including where and where he was before," said Aris.

Aris asked the public not to be too worried about the B117 case. He explained that the B117 virus has no more or the same risk level as COVID-19.

It's just that the spread, 40-70 percent faster than the previous COVID-19.

"The symptoms and risks are the same. The Task Force also does not provide special treatment in handling B117 patients," he said.

The Minister of Health, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, previously revealed that he had found four new cases related to the mutation of the B117 corona virus in Indonesia.

One of them was a patient from Medan who was detected on January 28.