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KUCHING (Oct 30): Sarawak recorded 16 new positive Covid-19 cases today, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 872.
The Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) in a daily update press release said today of the total number of cases detected, seven were located in Kuching, seven in Miri, one in Limbang and one in Lundu.
Of the seven new cases in Kuching, five were detected by active contact detection in the Green Hill Cluster. Three of them were workers who worked in one of the premises visited by a positive case of the cluster, while the other two were social contacts with a case of the cluster.
All five underwent a health exam on October 28 and 29, and results on October 29 indicated that they had tested positive for the virus.
Two other cases in Miri were determined to have been close contacts with Case 834, which also originated from the Green Hill Cluster. They had traveled to Kuching from October 23 to 25. While in Kuching, both cases had come across several other reported cases in the group.
They have been classified as Import C cases (infections from outside their district).
So far, 36 people have been infected with Covid-19 in Green Hill Cluster, including the index case. The infection rate for the group currently stands at 32.14 percent, SDMC revealed.
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