HEALTH, airport and quarantine authorities urged travellers and pregnant women to take extra precaution to prevent the spread of the Zika virus, as they stepped up efforts to block the mosquito-borne disease that has reached Singapore and Malaysia.

The Department of Health (DOH) assured the public on Friday there had been no new local transmission of the Zika virus in the country.

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