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An aerial view of the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly and its surroundings. – Stock photo of Bernama
KUCHING (Dec. 20): Sarawak recorded three new positive Covid-19 cases today consisting of one locally transmitted case and two imported cases, the State Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) said.
He said the locally transmitted case was recorded in Kuching, resulting in the district now being classified as a yellow zone.
“Kuching and Lubok Antu also registered a new imported case of Covid-19 each.
“This brings the total number of positive cases in the state to 1,090 cases,” he said today in a statement.
For the locally broadcast case, SDMC said it involved a Sarawak man who went for a Covid-19 screening test at a private medical facility for the purpose of accompanying his pregnant wife who was about to give birth.
“Case 1,089 had been tested on December 19 and the result that came back the same day was positive.
“This case has no history of travel abroad or to high-risk areas for Covid-19 infection in the last 14 days. He also had no contact with any positive Covid-19 cases, “he said.
He added that the patient, who is asymptomatic, has been referred to Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) for further treatment and further investigation and contact tracing is underway for this case.
On the imported case recorded in Kuching, the committee said that the 1,090 case involved a Swedish man who went to the detection of Covid-19 as an individual who had just returned from abroad.
“The case underwent the first RT-PCR test upon arrival and the results at that time were negative.
“Then they were tested again on December 19 and the results they got the same day were positive,” he said, adding that the patient is asymptomatic and has since been referred to SGH for further treatment.
He also said that the tracking of all contacts close to Case 1,090 is in full swing and that this case has been categorized as Import A because it was infected in another country.
For the imported case in Lubok Antu, Case 1,088 involved an Indonesian woman who underwent a Covid-19 test after authorities stopped her at the Ensawang border, SDMC said.
He said this case is suspected of entering Sarawak illegally using an illegal trail (‘jalan tikus’) in Tebedu on November 30.
“The case movement history in Sarawak showed that she has a history of traveling to Mukah and Sibu before arriving in Lubok Antu on December 17 to cross the border from Ensawang, where she was later detained.
“After she was arrested, the case was placed with the Lubok Antu district police headquarters,” it said.
He noted that case 1,088 underwent detection for Covid-19 on December 18 and test results on December 19 found the case to be positive for the infectious disease.
“This case is also asymptomatic and has been referred to SGH for further treatment.
“Further investigation and contact tracing are now in full swing,” he said, noting that this case has been categorized as Import A because it was infected from abroad.
Meanwhile, SDMC said a recovered Covid-19 patient was allowed to be discharged from Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) today.
“This brings the total number of recoveries in the state to 1,053 or 96.61 percent of total cases,” he said.
He added that there are currently 18 patients being treated at hospitals across the state, where 13 are treated at SGH, three at Sibu Hospital, one at Bintulu Hospital and one at Miri Hospital.
“There are four new cases of persons under investigation (PUI) reported today and one pending laboratory test result from PUI,” the committee said.
Since the first positive case of Covid-19 was reported on March 13, the state has recorded a total of 19 deaths.
In addition to Kuching, the districts of Serian and Sibu remain as yellow zones with a total of three cases of local infection reported in the last 14 days, namely two cases in Sibu and one in Serian.
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