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KUCHING: Sarawak registered two new Covid-19 cases detected in Kuching and Bintulu on Tuesday, and Kuching became a yellow zone due to a locally transmitted case.
This brings the total number of positive cases in the state to 703.
In a statement, the State Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) reported that case 702 is a local man working at a construction site in the Kuching district. The individual comes from the Serian district but resides in Kuching.
The case was detected through the detection of Covid-19 while receiving treatment at a private hospital in Kuching on September 21.
He began experiencing cough-like symptoms on September 18, and a private hospital referred him to Sarawak General Hospital the same day for further treatment.
The case is classified as a local transmission case, as he has no history of travel abroad or to other states in Malaysia. The case is still being investigated further and the Kuching Division Health Office and the Serian Division Health Office are conducting the contact search.
Case 703 is an imported case involving an Indonesian man who came to Sarawak to work for a shipping company in Bintulu.
It entered Malaysia via Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA2) from Jakarta, Indonesia on September 12. Upon arrival at KLIA2, the case was screened for Covid-19 but tested negative.
He then continued on the KLIA2 flight to Bintulu the same day. Upon arrival at Bintulu Airport, the case was taken directly to the hotel’s quarantine center in Bintulu to undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine. He was also tested for Covid-19 using the rT-PCR test on September 13 and the result was also negative.
On September 21, he underwent a second screening test on the 10th day of his quarantine, and the results of this rT-PCR test were positive for the virus.
He was admitted to Bintulu Hospital the same day for further treatment and is currently asymptomatic.
It is classified as an imported case as the man became infected while in his home country before entering Sarawak. Contact tracing is in full swing.
Meanwhile, SDMC also reported that the Alam Cluster in Bintulu remains active, even though all eight cases have recovered from the virus and were discharged.
There are no cases of recoveries and expenses of the day. To date, 680 or 96.73% of the total number of cases have recovered from the virus.
“A total of four cases continue to be treated in the isolation rooms of the hospital. They are currently receiving treatment at Sibu Hospital, Sungai Buloh Hospital in Selangor, SGH and Bintulu Hospital respectively. There is one case, which was reported in Sandakan, Sabah is currently receiving treatment at Bintulu Hospital, ”he said.
Regarding the persons under investigation (PUI), there were eight new ones, bringing the cumulative total of PUIs to 9,674 to date.
For people under surveillance (PUS), there are 140 people who have checked into hotels for their mandatory quarantine today. This brings the total number of current PUSs to 647 people at 11 hotels statewide.
To date, those who have completed their quarantine period number 24,324.
With no reported deaths, the death toll in the state remains unchanged at 19 or 2.7 percent of the total number of cases.
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