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KUCHING (Oct 16): Close contact follow-up is being carried out in relation to two positive cases that were reported at the construction sites of the Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) and the former Intan Sarawak building, the State Management Committee reported Disaster (SDMC).
“A total of 271 workers have been examined. Of that number, a total of 176 were construction workers at the site, 81 contractor employees and 14 employees at the former Intan Sarawak building, ”it said in a statement Friday.
Meanwhile, SDMC also reported that Malaysia’s Sarawak Immigration Department has made 25 arrests from an operation that took place on Thursday.
“Of that total, 17 were male workers at the SGH construction site, while eight were male workers at the old Intan Sarawak building,” he said.
On Thursday, SDMC President Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas told a news conference that two new positive cases were foreign workers.
“Cases 756 and 757 are Indonesians from West Indonesia who entered Sarawak on October 12 and underwent medical and Covid-19 screening in a private hospital as a requirement before starting work. They were found to have entered the state illegally and did not undergo a 14-day quarantine like other visitors from abroad, ”he said.
The multi-agency Covid-19 operation on Thursday was carried out at construction sites where the two workers had previously tested positive for Covid-19.
The discovery led to the SDMC’s decision to tighten state border control to stop the flow of illegal immigrants who could be infected by the Covid-19 virus.
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