PETALING JAYA: Three out of four new Covid-19 clusters were related to the workplace, says Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
The Health director-general said the three new clusters were identified as Lagoon Selatan in Selangor, Jalan Firma Dua in Johor and Jalan Haji Malek in Melaka.
He said the other cluster was linked to a community in Sarawak and named Bukit Tunggal.
In the Lagoon Selatan cluster, 34 workers of a cleaning company located in Bandar Sunway, Subang Jaya, were screened since Feb 27.
So far, 12 of them had tested positive.
In the Firma Dua cluster, the index case tested positive on March 4.
Its director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the other is a community-related cluster.
The three work clusters are Lagoon Selatan in Selangor, Jalan Firma Dua in Johor, Jalan Haji Malek in Melaka, while the community cluster is in Bukit Tunggal, Sarawak.
In the Lagoon Selatan cluster, workers of a cleaning company located at Jalan Lagoon Selatan in Bandar Sunway, Subang Jaya were screened since Feb 27.
As of March 6, some 34 individuals were screened, with 12 testing positive.
In the Firma Dua cluster, the index case for the cluster was tested positive for Covid-19 on March 4.
The cluster involves factory workers at Jalan Firma 2/1, Kawasan Perindustrian Tebrau 1 in Johor.
KUALA LUMPUR (March 6): Malaysia recorded 1,680 new cases of Covid-19, with seven deaths over the past 24 hours.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the drop in the number of new cases from 2,154 recorded yesterday brought the cumulative case count to 311,777, with the death toll stood at 1,166.
“A total of 2,548 recoveries were recorded today, higher than the number of daily new cases,” he tweeted.
Cumulative recovered cases now stood at 289,452, with active cases at 21,159.
Meanwhile, in a statement, Noor Hisham said the deaths reported today involved three patients in Selangor, three cases in Sarawak and one in Sabah, aged between 43 and 84.
06 Mar 2021 / 19:20 H.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia recorded 1,680 new cases of Covid-19 with seven deaths over the past 24 hours.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the drop in the number of new cases from 2,154 recorded yesterday brought the cumulative case count to 311,777, with the death toll at 1,166.
“A total of 2,548 recoveries were recorded today, higher than the number of daily new cases,” he tweeted.
The cumulative recovered cases now stood at 289,452, while active cases at 21,159.
A total of 172 cases were being treated at the intensive care unit with 84 patients requiring ventilator support.
Meanwhile, in a statement, Dr Noor Hisham said the deaths reported today involved three patients in Selangor, three cases in Sarawak and one in Sabah, all aged between 43 and 84.