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 patient contracted the virus from the community and active case detection found another 10 infected.
A total of 546 individuals were screened, with 186 testing negative while another 349 are awaiting for results.
18 Apr 2021 / 19:21 H.
KUALA
LUMPUR: Malaysia today reported 2,195 Covid-19 new cases and eight fatalities, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said.
The latest figures take the cumulative number of Covid-19 cases in the country to 375,054 with the death toll now at 1,378. Malaysia recorded 2,195 new cases yesterday.
Dr Noor Hisham, in a Twitter post, said Sarawak was back to being the state with the highest number of new cases, reporting 508 infections today, followed by Selangor (431), Johor (387) and Kelantan with 332 cases.
Kuala Lumpur, meanwhile, reported 176 new cases, followed by Sabah (112), Penang (84), Negeri Sembilan (42), Perak (35), Kedah (30), Terengganu (16), Melaka and Pahang 15 cases each, Labuan (6), Putrajaya (3) and Perlis (3).