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PUTRAJAYA: More than one hundred cases of Covid-19 were found linked to a residential area of Kuala Lumpur, after a detection exercise by the Ministry of Health in the town.
Health Director General Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah said the cases were classified as the Jalan Rusa group and are based in the Cheras district.
“The community screening exercise was conducted after a resident was found to be positive for Covid-19 in late November.
“After 1,267 people were tested, a total of 129 positive cases were confirmed in this group,” Dr. Noor Hisham said in a statement yesterday.
Jalan Rusa’s group is one of three new groups announced yesterday by the ministry.
The second new group is the Tapak Bina Pasifik group, which is linked to a construction site in the Lembah Pantai district, Kuala Lumpur.
“The first positive cases in this group were confirmed on December 12 after a screening exercise at the workplace.
“So far, 159 people have been tested and 17 cases have been confirmed as positive for Covid-19 in this group,” said Dr. Noor Hisham.
The other new group is the Maringkan group which involves the Telupid and Ranau districts in Sabah.
The index case is a 45-year-old man who developed symptoms and was confirmed positive for Covid-19 on December 5 after a test.
Dr. Noor Hisham said 93 close contacts have been traced and tested, and 11 positive cases have been discovered in the group.
Meanwhile, the Jalan Harapan group of prisons saw the largest increase in new cases of the 193 groups active in the country.
The group, which is linked to the Sungai Buloh prison in Selangor, registered 98 new cases, bringing the group’s total confirmed cases to 1,050.
Malaysia yesterday saw more Covid-19 recoveries than new cases, as 1,297 patients were discharged and 1,220 new infections confirmed.
Dr Noor Hisham said the country now has 89,133 confirmed cases and 74,030 recoveries since the start of the pandemic.
The number of people with active Covid-19 infections in Malaysia has now dropped slightly to 14,671.
Selangor continued to lead the states with 368 new Covid-19 cases, or 30.2% of yesterday’s total.
Dr Noor Hisham also announced three deaths due to Covid-19, bringing Malaysia’s death toll to 432.
Two of the deaths occurred in Sabah while another in Johor.
The Johor case involved a 36-year-old man who had a history of diabetes, high blood pressure, and chronic kidney disease.
He died at Enche ‘Besar Hajjah Khalsom Hospital in Kluang.
The other cases involved a 55-year-old Malaysian who died at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kota Kinabalu and an 81-year-old foreign man, who was pronounced “dead on arrival” at Duchess of Kent Hospital, Sandakan.
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