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PETALING JAYA: Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) will hold a meeting on Wednesday (Jan 20) evening to discuss safety measures to be taken at Pasar Borong Kuala Lumpur in Selayang following a surge in Covid-19 cases detected there.
DBKL Corporate Planning Department director Khairul Azmir Ahmad said the meeting involving representatives of the National Security Council and Health Ministry will also look into closing certain sections of the market.
“Closure here does not necessarily mean that the whole market will be closed. We might close some sections to make way for sanitisation. We will have to look closer at the number of Covid-19 infections at each of the fish, meat and vegetables sections, ” he said when contacted.
KUALA LUMPUR: Pasar Borong Kuala Lumpur has confirmed a total of 118 positive Covid-19 cases on Tuesday (Jan 19).
Kuala Lumpur Vegetable Wholesalers’ Association president Wong Keng Fatt said 31 workers from the vegetables section and 87 from the fish section were infected with the coronavirus. We hired a private laboratory to do the RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction) test on the workers and the results were shared with three trader associations here. Workers from the fruit section were being tested starting yesterday and results will likely be ready by Thursday (Jan 21), he told StarMetro on Tuesday (Jan 19).
Meanwhile, the fish section of the market was closed for disinfection since Monday (Jan 18) until Jan 21 and the section will resume its operations on Jan 22.
January 20, 2021
KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR) – Pasar Borong Kuala Lumpur has confirmed 118 positive COVID-19 cases yesterday.
Kuala Lumpur Vegetable Wholesalers’ Association President Wong Keng Fatt said 31 workers from the vegetables section and 87 from the fish section were infected with the coronavirus.
“We hired a private laboratory to do the RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction) test on the workers and the results were shared with three trader associations.
“Workers from the fruit section were being tested starting yesterday and results will likely be ready by Thursday,” he told
StarMetro yesterday.
Meanwhile, the fish section of the market was closed for disinfection since Monday until tomorrow and the section will resume its operations on Friday.