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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia reported 24 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday (September 9), including six imported infections.
Health Director General Noor Hisham Abdullah said the imported cases included two Bangladeshis in Negeri Sembilan and Kuala Lumpur, a Chinese and an Indonesian who were in Sabah, a South Korean in Selangor and a Singaporean in Sarawak.
The imported cases entered Malaysia before an expanded entry ban went into effect on Monday, he added. Citizens of countries with more than 150,000 cases of COVID-19 cannot enter Malaysia.
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“The two Bangladeshis arrived in Malaysia on September 6 and were examined on the same day, while China’s case arrived in Malaysia on September 5 and was examined on September 6.”
The remaining 18 cases were local broadcasts. Of these, 13 were linked to the Sungai group in Kedah, while two more were from the Benteng group in Sabah.
Two other local cases were from the Telaga and Tawar clusters in Kedah, while the remaining case was identified through a symptom screening at Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital.
Dr. Noor Hisham also said that investigations found that 53 percent of COVID-19 cases among health ministry workers were due to infections from colleagues and staff members.
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Another 22 percent of healthcare workers contracted COVID-19 from community members, while 17 percent became infected while handling patients whose coronavirus test results were pending.
So far, no Ministry of Health personnel have caught the coronavirus while treating patients in a COVID-19 ward or in the intensive care unit, he added.
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