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PUTRAJAYA: Seven new Covid-19 clusters were detected on Monday (March 1), one of which involved an aged care home in Sentul, Kuala Lumpur. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a statement that five clusters were linked to workplace infections, while one was a community transmission and another cluster was found among a high-risk group. The Jalan Cempedak cluster involved the Kepong district and was detected at an aged care home in Jalan Cempedak, Sentul. To date, 30 i...

Four were located in Johor, three in Selangor, and one each in Kuala Lumpur and Penang. A total of 31 cases have been detected in the Jalan Timah Tiga cluster following screening of an individual who displayed symptoms. The cluster is linked to a factory in the Pasir Gudang Industrial Estate in Johor Baru. Similarly, the Jalan Tanjung Empat cluster and Jalan Desa Tropika cluster – both in Johor Baru – were reported following screenings at factories, with 28 cases and ten cases reported resp...

Photo Credit: IANS IANSLive Bengaluru, Feb 28 (IANS) With 33 Covid positive cases reported till Saturday, in three clusters at Agragami College, Sambharam College and residents of Purva Venezia apartment of Yelahanka New Town, a northern suburb of Bengaluru, the Bengaluru civic body is contemplating to intensifying testing, tracking and treating. To get full access of the story, click here to subscribe to IANS News Service © 2021 IANS India Private Limited. All Rights Reserved. The reproducti...

JOHOR BARU: The Johor government hopes to start the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme from March 1, says R. Vidyananthan. The State Health and Environment Committee chairman said that Johor received its first batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on Sunday (Feb 21) via the Johor Causeway. “We hope to launch the first phase of the programme on March 1, focusing on frontliners from the Health Ministry as well as from other departments that are directly involved in controlling and...

It was due to students coming from Kerala to study Agragami College and Sambharam College are responsible for the spread of pandemic, while in Purva Venezia apartment, it was spread from travellers from Maharashtra, who tested positive here.The

KUCHING: Public gatherings are the main factor behind the spike in Covid-19 cases and clusters in Sarawak this year, says state Health director Dr Chin Zin Hing. He said an analysis by the Health Department indicated that funerals contributed to four clusters ranging from 25 to 2,000 cases each, while social gatherings led to 11 clusters with 17 to 61 cases each. There are also five workplace clusters with 10 to 35 cases each and a wedding cluster with 187 cases. "We need everyones cooperation ...

KOTA KINABALU: The quick thinking of the SMK Nabawan administration to isolate three symptomatic students has helped prevent further spread of Covid-19 in the school.

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah ( pic) said since the pandemic began, the ministry had identified a total of 1,111 clusters, of which 612 had ended. Among the 18 inactive clusters is the Tapak Bina Bali Residence cluster in Melaka, which had 223 confirmed cases. The cluster was related to workers of a construction site in Melaka, of whom 218 were non-Malaysians. No deaths were reported from the cluster. The ministry also uncovered eight new clusters, which means there ar...

COVID19: Limassol school clusters raise concern © FinancialMirror 2021 COVID-19 clusters have been detected at two Limassol primary schools, with one of them forced to close it emerged on Wednesday. Health authorities were alerted when COVID-19 cases were found among pupils at the Melina Merkouri and Ayios Georgios primary schools, both in the village of Polemidia in the Limassol district. All pupils at Ayios Georgios remained home on Wednesday while only around 35 of the...

KUCHING: Two new Covid-19 clusters were detected in Sarawak on Monday (Feb 22). Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah said the Emperoh Jambu cluster was linked to a funeral at Kampung Emperoh Jambu in Padawan here from Feb 3 to 5 and had 60 confirmed cases to date. The village will be placed under an enhanced movement control order for 14 days from Feb 23 to March 8. "The index case is a 45-year-old man who tested positive on Feb 16 while undergoing screening before starting work. "He ...