Covid-19: Police hunt five Indonesian workers
December 30, 2020
Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah
KUCHING – Police are on the hunt for five Indonesian workers who ran away from their quarters in Jemukan Ulu, Asajaya, about 40km from here, after being screened for COVID-19 about 10 days ago.
Kota Samarahan District Police chief DSP Sudirman Kram today said the results of the COVID-19 test on two of them – Harianto Safari, 41, and Mihan Madi, 23, – came back positive.
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They were reported to have run away from the workers’ quarters with three others known as Randi, 30, Hamsar, 27, and Rija Riansyah Tan Rabudin, 29.
“Initial investigation found that they were hired to clean up a plantation area in Sadong Land District, Jemukan Ulu, Asajaya, and were screened for the coronavirus on Dec 21. However, on Dec 22, the five were reported to have run away from their quarters,” he said in a statement here today.
30 Dec 2020 / 20:23 H.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Ministry of Health (MOH) has detected eight more new Covid-19 clusters today, three in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur and one each in Selangor, Johor, Pahang, Kedah and Perak.
Health director-general, Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham said the new development brings the total clusters in Malaysia to 506 and there are 223 active clusters being monitored.
In Kuala Lumpur, he said the first of the eight clusters was the Jalan Stesen construction site cluster involving transmission at the workplace in Lembah Pantai district.
“The first case of the cluster (case number 94863) was reported positive for Covid-19 on Dec 21 through screening of a symptomatic individual and up to today, 607 individuals have been screened with 54 found positive,” he said in a statement in Covid-19 development here today.
PETALING JAYA: Around 89% of Covid-19 patients in Malaysia are asymptomatic or showing mild symptoms, says Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. Those are under category one and two. For patients under categories three, four and five, the percentage was originally 7% but has increased to 11%, the Health director-general said in his daily Covid-19 briefing Monday (Dec 28).
He gave his reassurances that there were still beds available for patients, despite the delay in transfers lately. The delay is due to the increase in positive cases. It might take a day or two or even longer. This is mainly in the Klang Valley, he said.
KUALA LUMPUR • Malaysia is advising people who have tested positive for the coronavirus but have no Covid-19 symptoms to self-isolate at home first, as cases involving foreign workers are surging.
These asymptomatic patients should keep in contact with their district health offices, said the Health Ministry s director-general, Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
These patients may not be taken to hospitals immediately as the healthcare system is overloaded, Malay Mail online news reported him as saying yesterday. He said hospitals are currently at 59 per cent of their bed capacity.
Malaysia is grappling with logistical issues such as the ferrying of people to hospitals and a high number of foreign workers being tested and found to have Covid-19.