KUCHING: The state Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah is looking into postponing the direct flights to Hainan under an memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed recently.

Abdul Karim said this came about in view of the outbreak of the 2019 novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) or better known as Wuhan Coronavirus in China that has so far claimed 56 lives, and cases have also been reported in several other countries as far away as the United States, France and Australia.