I Made Sudarsana, a doctor with the Port Health Office at Denpasar airport, told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age that officials had traced the woman on the Emirates flight who was subsequently diagnosed with coronavirus, "The person was at the international terminal, [was] seen at the terminal and immediately went to the airline counter and exited to proceed to the next flight. "The person passed through the terminal hall, where if she was showing symptoms [fever], the scanner would've picked it up," Doctor Darsana said. Loading Replay Replay video Play video Play video "The officers that handled them were all wearing proper self-protection items [masks] and we have hand sanitiser available for everybody in the hall." The exit of the woman with coronavirus into the terminal raises questions about other passengers in the Denpasar airport in Bali coming into contact with her and, potentially, contracting the virus.

Indonesia has no confirmed positive cases of coronavirus - a statistic that doctors, diplomats, health professionals and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison have questioned - given that almost all of Indonesia's neighbouring countries have reported cases, and the country has conducted only 136 tests on a population of nearly 270 million people. Achmad Yurianto, the Indonesian Health Ministry's Disease Control and Prevention Directorate Secretary, said that authorities had not begun contact tracing to determine who, if anyone, the female passenger had contact with while on the ground in Denpasar. "Until now we have not received the name of the said passenger. Immigration has to provide the name for us," he said. Passengers wear masks in the arrival hall of Bali's Denpasar airport. Credit:Amilia Rosa "However, we have conducted monitoring at Bali airport on influenza-like illnesses and pneumomia.

"Particularly for this case we have asked Bali to monitor the airport for 14 consecutive days and report to us any significant rise in influenza-like illnesses and pneumonia cases. If we receive the name of the said passenger we will be able to focus on contact tracing." Arvin Gumilang, a spokesman for the Directorate-General of Immigration said the department did not have the name of the passenger, or know if she had disembarked. It is not clear if Health or Immigration have contacted the airline, or New Zealand authorities, to find out the name of the passenger, who arrived in New Zealand on Wednesday and who was diagnosed with coronavirus on Friday. Before I Made Sudarsana' statement, another Indonesian Health department official had suggested to the ABC that passengers on the flight had not left the plane while in transit in Denpasar.

Before the statement from the Bali airport doctor, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age contacted Emirates several times to clarify if the passengers on the flight to Auckland had left the plane and the airline did not directly answer this question. Loading In a statement, a spokeswoman said the airline was "cooperating with the respective authorities on their requirements relating to EK450 on 26 Feb". "All our aircraft are thoroughly cleaned before every flight and as part of our standard protocols, we will also implement enhanced cleaning procedures on any aircraft on which there have been suspect or confirmed cases of infectious diseases," she said. "Our crew are trained to handle various medical incidents onboard and since the COVID-19 outbreak began, we have been providing our crew community with regular updates on how to stay safe while on duty and what to do should they feel unwell."

But a tweet from one of Emirates official social media accounts on January 2nd stated that "all transit passengers on EK450 must disembark the aircraft and board again. Passengers will stay at the international transit area while waiting to board the flight". In a follow up statement, the airlines said "Emirates is in contact with their crew members who operated the flight. They will undergo health screening". Loading Morrison said on Friday that the claim of zero infections in Indonesia was “a function of their capability to test”.