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Medical personnel don protective gear while conducting active case detection in the city. Photo of Chimon Upon
KUCHING (October 29): Sarawak today registered 10 new positive cases of Covid-19, with eight detected in Kuching and two imported cases, bringing the total number of positive cases in the state to 856.
Senior Deputy Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah said one case was detected following the Active Case Detection (ACD) carried out at Galacity on October 26, while three new cases were registered from the Baki Cluster, four from the Green Cluster. Hill and two imported cases from Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia.
Galacity’s case is a local woman who works in a beauty salon there and had experienced a cold and sore throat since October 21. He has no history of traveling to high-risk areas or contact with any positive Covid-19 cases and has since been admitted to the isolation ward of Sarawak General Hospital.
Contact tracing is ongoing for this case and has been classified as local transmission until further details emerge.
A total of 278 people were tested during ACD activities at Galacity on October 26, and 277 have so far tested negative for the virus.
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