The M. Djamil Padang General Hospital (RSUP) will begin implementing visitor screenings on Thursday, amid the coronavirus scare.

Video footage from Wednesday (March 11) shows security checking the body temperature of visitors with an infrared thermometer before they enter the hospital building.

Hospital Director, Yusirwan Yusuf said: "We do this procedure because positive cases have been found in Indonesia which are quite significant."

Yusirwan added: "When officers find the visitor has a suspected body temperature above 37.5 centigrade, the hospital will take further action according to the Covid-19 SOP."

The M. Djamil Padang General Hospital (RSUP) will screen all visitors who enter the hospital, in order to increase awareness of the Corona or Covid-19 virus spread in the Djamil Padang M area. Each visitor will be inspected using an infrared thermometer that is applied since Thursday afternoon (11/3) until an unspecified time.

Director of M Djamil Padang General Hospital, Yusirwan Yusuf Said "We do this procedure because positive cases have been found in Indonesia which are quite significant, we as a public service hospital with quite a lot of people in and out so that from today all visitors are checked for body temperature screening,"

Yusirwan added "When officers find the visitor has a suspected body temperature above 37.5 centigrade, the hospital will take further action according to the Covid-19 SOP."

Checking the body temperature of visitors at RSUP M. Djamil Padang will be done at every entrance of existing services, the infrared thermometer is considered to have good solubility with the same system as the Thermo scanner by detecting human body temperature. Meanwhile, for the handling of patients infected with corona RSUP M. Djamil Padang Has prepared four special isolation rooms and will increase up to 10 rooms by utilizing the lung ward.

Until March 11, 2020, the Indonesian government announced that 27 of its citizens had been exposed to positive corona.