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COVID-19 | A bus driver in Sandakan has tested positive for Covid-19 and this has led to the discovery of a new group with at least 20 people in the city of Sabah.
The man developed a sore throat and fever on September 27 and tested positive for Covid-19 on October 3 after being admitted to Duchess of Kent Hospital, Health Director-General Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah said today.
Contact tracing found that at least 19 other Malaysians had become infected after contact with the driver. They make up the new Crowds cluster.
Another 146 who had contact with the driver have been examined and are awaiting their results, Noor Hisham said in his daily briefing.
Meanwhile, a one-year-old girl in Sabah was one of four Covid-19 fatalities announced today, bringing the cumulative death toll to 141. The girl, who was the 140th death announced, is the most casual young man from Covid-19 in Malaysia to date.
She was taken to the Semporna Hospital Emergency and Trauma Unit on October 1 with respiratory difficulties and required a ventilator. He died yesterday at 4.25 pm.
Meanwhile, three other deaths announced today include a 60-year-old man who sought treatment at the same hospital on September 1. He tested positive on September 30 and died at 5.05 a.m. on October 4.
The other two deaths are another 60-year-old man who died at Duchess of Kent Hospital, Sandakan on October 4 after 10 days of treatment and an 85-year-old man who was found unconscious and not breathing.
The 85-year-old man was pronounced dead at the Hospital Penang on October 5 at 7:50 am The man is believed to be the inmate who reportedly died in Penang Pretrial Detention yesterday morning.
This is the fourth known detention center exposed to Covid-19 during the last fortnight.
The others are Tawau Prison (where the Benteng LD Cluster), Alor Setar Prison (where wall the group was found) and the Kamunting Detention Center (linked to the rock cluster).
Today, 394 new cases were discovered in the Tembok cluster, representing 57 percent of all cases announced today.
The Tembok group, which was discovered after the death of a prison staff, now has 1,047 cases.
Benteng’s LD group has 951 cases, while the new Batu group discovered today has seven cases among detention center staff and their families.
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