Health authorities in China and Hong Kong are monitoring 95 people after they came in contact with a Korean patient infected with MERS, or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.
 
In China’s Guangdong province, authorities are monitoring 77 people who were in close contact with the Korean patient, known as K.
 
Authorities in Hong Kong have quarantined and are observing 18 people who shared a flight with K.
 
However, preliminary test results for 42 people in Huizhou, Guangdong and 18 people in Hong Kong came back negative.
 
Meanwhile, tests results for a man in Hong Kong and a woman in Taiwan, who showed MERS-like symptoms unrelated to K, found that they were not infected with the disease.
 
Chinese health authorities said K, who showed symptoms of high fever and pneumonia, has regained consciousness and is now stable, with a normal blood pressure and heart beat.