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完整標題：‘It is not COVID-19’: Indonesian health official mixes up disease
and virus
發稿單位：The Jakarta Post
發稿時間：Feb 25, 2020
撰 稿 者：A. Muh. Ibnu Aqil
原文連結：https://tinyurl.com/qunrcrt


A Health Ministry official said on Monday that the Japanese national who teste
d positive for the novel coronavirus upon his return from a trip to Indonesia
was "not a case of COVID-19".

印尼政府表示，某日本人自印尼返日本後，被檢出新冠病毒陽性反應，「並非 COVID-19
案例」。

Secretary Achmad Yurianto of the Health Ministry's disease control and prevent
ion directorate general said that according to Japanese authorities, the man w
as infected with “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2" – or SARS
-CoV-2 – and insisted that SARS-CoV-2 was different from COVID-19.

印尼 CDC 主任 Achmad Yurianto 說，依據日本權責單位資料，該日本人是感染 SARS-Co
V-2 病毒，堅持不同於 COVID-19。

“There [in Japan], he was diagnosed by doctors to have been infected with SAR
S coronavirus type 2,” Yurianto told The Jakarta Post on Monday.

Yurianto 週一告訴 Jakarta Post：「該日本人被診斷感染 SARS-CoV-2」。

When the Post asked Yurianto to elaborate on his insistence that the Japanese
man did not have COVID-19 despite testing positive for SARS-CoV-2, he maintain
ed his earlier statement.

Jakarta Post 詢問 Yurianto 為何刻意堅稱該日本人並無 COVID-19、即便是 SARS-CoV-
2 陽性反應？Y 氏仍保持之前說法。

In an earlier interview with kompas.com, Yurianto claimed that coronavirus dis
ease 2019, officially named COVID-19, was different from SARS-CoV-2.

更早之前Yurianto 被 kompas.com 訪問時，Yurianto 宣稱 COVID-19 不同於 SARS-Co
V-2。

"What we have now is a COVID-19 epidemic. There are experts saying that COVID-
19 is different from SARS CoV-2, and that the differences reach 70 percent,”
he said.

Y 氏：「我們知道現在 COVID-19 大流行。專家們說 COVID-19 異於 SARS-CoV-2，而其
差異達 70%」。

Yurianto said he believed that the two were different because in dealing with
Indonesian crew members of the Diamond Princess cruise ship, Japan had consist
ently referred to their illness as COVID-19 rather than saying that they had t
ested positive for SARS-CoV-2.

Yurianto 說，他相信這兩者不同是因為鑽石公主號上的印尼籍員工是 COVID-19 病症而
不是說他們 SARS-CoV-2 陽性。

The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), which is responsibl
e for naming and classifying new viruses, announced on Feb. 11 that the virus
that causes COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) "has been named 'severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2' (SARS-CoV-2)".

負責命名病毒的 ICTV 於 2 月 11 日宣告造成 COVID-19 病症的病毒是 SARS-CoV-2。

The World Health Organization has also published a special webpage on naming t
he new coronavirus, which states that "the virus responsible for COVID-19" is
named "severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2)". The subsequent section has the subheading "Why do the virus and
 the disease have different names?", and provides a clear explanation.

WHO 也做了同樣的宣告，也有詳細解釋。

On Feb. 22, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced that the Japanese man
was a Tokyo resident in his 60s. In related news published the same day, natio
nal broadcaster NHK reported that the man was diagnosed on Feb. 19 upon his re
turn from a family vacation in Indonesia, but did not specify the local destin
ation. It also said that he had gone to a medical facility on Feb. 12 with "co
ld-like symptoms".

2 月 22 日，東京市政府對外宣告該日本人年紀約 60 歲；NHK 則報導該日本人於 2 月
19 日自印尼返過後確診（並未提及停留地區）。另 2 月 12 日因感冒症狀就診。

Yurianto said that while the man was in Indonesia, he had only visited Bali an
d had not shown any symptoms of COVID-19.

Yurianto 表示此人僅去過峇里島，並未出現 COVID-19 病徵。

Meanwhile, Omni Hospital Pulomas vaccinologist Dirga Sakti Rambe said that sim
ilar cases could be going undetected, as several cases had been reported of pe
ople infected with SARS-CoV-2 who had not shown any symptoms of COVID-19.

Omni Hospital Pulomas 的免疫專家 Dirga Sakti Rambe 說，一些 SARS-CoV-2 陽性者
並無 COVID-19 症狀。

“[Asymptomatic] cases like this would not be detected at any airport around t
he world. This is what makes COVID-19 management difficult,” Dirga told the P
ost.

Dirga 跟 Jakarta Post 說，這樣在全世界的機場都無法偵測，會讓 COVID-19 更難管理
。

Although ports of entry like airports should check the temperature of passenge
rs according to guidance from the WHO, cases of infection could still miss det
ection, he said.

雖說依據 WHO 指南需在機場檢查旅客體溫，但仍可能錯漏。

“This is not the fault of the airport’s detection system, but the character
of this disease. It is getting harder to control the outbreak because of asymp
tomatic transmission,” said Dirga. “That’s why it must be followed up, wher
e he went, etc. Ideally, we should be tracking his [close] contacts.”

Dirga 說這並非機場體溫檢測問題，而是疾病的特性。這讓疾病散播控制越來越難，所以
必須追蹤病人去向以及接觸的人。

On Monday, NHK reported that the Tokyo government had identified around 80 peo
ple as the man's close contacts and instructed them to remain at home in self-
quarantine, and that it was continuing to surveil their condition.

週一 NHK 報導日本政府已確認約 80 人跟此人有密切接觸並實行居家隔離，持續監控他
們的健康狀態。

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