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KUCHING: Four new Covid-19 clusters involving 13 longhouses have been identified in Sarawak, as the state reported 589 new cases and three deaths on Monday (April 19). The state disaster management committee said the Sungai Anus cluster involving a longhouse in Sungai Anus, Selangau, had 39 confirmed cases to date after the index case tested positive on April 9. The Sungai Selitut cluster involving another longhouse at Sungai Selitut, Tatau, has 18 confirmed cases to date. "The index case was d...

SIBU: Two new clusters contributed to the rising number of Covid-19 cases in the state, with 508 cases reported on Sunday (April 18). The State Disaster Management Committee in a statement said the Jalan Bintulu-Sibu cluster near Tatau reported 11 cases. The cluster involved a secondary school and residence at KM60 of the Jalan Bintulu-Sibu in Tatau district. "The index case is a 16-year-old student who tested positive at the Tatau Health Clinic on April 10," it said. The committee believed the...

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PETALING JAYA: Five new Covid-19 clusters were reported, with three linked to workplaces.

(pic). The Sabah Local Government and Housing Minister said this as Sandakan district joins Tawau and Lahad Datu as MCO imposed districts, while the MCO in Keningau is set to end on Sunday (April 18) as scheduled. “Kota Kinabalu appears to have stabilised with seven new cases on Saturday, and so theres no truth to the rumours of a MCO in Kota Kinabalu, ” he tweeted on Saturday (April 17). Sabah recorded 163 new cases on Saturday, with Tawau contributing the highest figure at 95 cases, follo...

PETALING JAYA: Seven new Covid-19 clusters were reported on Friday (April 16), three of which are linked to workplaces. Two other clusters were linked to detention centres, and one each to a community and an education centre, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said. The Jalan Sultan Iskandar cluster in Bintulu, Sarawak, is linked to a public institution where 27 cases have been detected out of 440 individuals tested. The Jalan Balakong cluster in Hulu Langat, Selangor, with...

PUTRAJAYA: Fifteen new Covid-19 clusters have been identified, with five of them detected in Kelantan.

PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry has identified nine new Covid-19 clusters in the country, of which four are workplace outbreaks. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the number of active clusters in the country is now 344. The Jalan Puncak Borneo cluster in Sarawak has 61 confirmed cases so far. "The cluster is linked to trainees of a training centre in Jalan Puncak Borneo, Kuching. "A targeted screening exercise was conducted on 111 individuals from April 11. "As of Apri...

Analysing The Second Wave: The Worst Should Be Over In Three Weeks by Venu Gopal Narayanan - Apr 13, 2021 06:45 AM Covid-19 testing. Snapshot Data shows that every cluster, no matter how large, has a peak life of less than a month. And that is something we may take heart from. Many large states of India are once again in the furious grip of a second wave of the Wuhan virus. New records are being set in daily case numbers along with steeper growth exponents. A detailed analysis of the contagion...

PETALING JAYA: A total of 10 new Covid-19 clusters were reported in the country on Sunday (April 4), with a prison cluster in Sarawak alone reporting 160 new infections. The Tembok Sri Aman cluster was discovered after a screening of detainees at the Sri Aman Prison on March 30. Of the other nine new clusters reported, five were detected at workplaces and four were community linked, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah in a statement. The Jalan Maju Cermerlang cluster re...