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KUCHING (November 16): Sarawak today registered a positive case of Covid-19 in Miri, bringing the total number of positive cases in the state to 1,041.
According to the chairman and deputy minister of the State Disaster Management Committee (SDMC), Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas, the latest case involved a four-year-old local boy who had close contact with cases 829 and 883 related to the Green Hill Cluster.
The SDMC president said the boy underwent his first evaluation on October 28 and his results were negative on October 31.
The boy then underwent his second evaluation on Nov. 14 and was found positive for Covid-19, he added.
“Case 1,041 (the child) is a member of the family and a close contact of the same household with case 829 and case 883. He is asymptomatic.
“Now he is being isolated and protected in the Miri Hospital. He is a close contact with the positive cases related to the Green Hill Cluster, ”Uggah said at the SDCM Covid-19 daily update press conference here.
He said that so far five groups were still active in the state. These are Green Hill Cluster with 91 cases to date, including the child Miri, Jalan Abell Cluster with 15 cases, Baki Cluster with 33 cases, Seladah Cluster with nine cases and Wisma Saberkas Cluster with 44 cases.
Uggah also announced that there were five cases that have recovered and discharged, all from Sarawak General Hospital (SGH).
At present, he said, 91 Covid-19 patients continue to be isolated and treated in hospitals across the state, where 81 are at SGH and 10 at Miri Hospital.
None were in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), but one in SGH required a ventilator to help the patient breathe properly, he added.
The death toll in the state remains at 19.
Meanwhile, Uggah said Sarawak registered five new People Under Investigation (PUI) cases today, and two are still awaiting the results of their lab tests.
He said the state also registered 328 new cases of people under surveillance (PUS) today, bringing a total of 2,858 cases to quarantine at 31 hotels across the state.
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