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PETALING JAYA: The closure of the factories linked to the Teratai cluster will allow medical workers to mobilize to affected areas to examine all their workers, says Health Director General Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah.
“The ministry welcomes the announcement by Chief Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob that the factories will be closed in stages to allow a comprehensive review of their workers.
“This will allow medical workers and public health assistants to mobilize to affected areas to assist in control and prevention activities, including screening tests,” he said during his press conference on Monday (November 23).
The Teratai group is linked to the factories of the rubber glove manufacturer Top Glove in Selangor.
Earlier, Ismail said that 28 Top Glove factories in Klang will be temporarily closed to allow the Health Ministry to test its workers for Covid-19.
On November 17, an enhanced 14-day MCO was enforced in the area.
The total population in the area improved MCO is around 5,900 people.
However, Dr. Noor Hisham said that information received from the factory management found that the total worker population is 13,000 people who work in 28 different buildings in the factory.
“The Klang District Health Office is working with the factory management to screen all its employees,” he said.
Dr. Noor Hisham said the group recorded 1,067 cases on Monday and had contributed to the increase in cases in the country.
It said 5,767 cases had been examined, of which 2,524 tested positive, 1,330 tested negative while another 1,913 were still awaiting their results.
The cases in this group, said Dr. Noor Hisham, consist of 164 Malaysians and 2,360 foreigners between the ages of two and 68.
Dr. Noor Hisham also assured the public that the increase in cases in the Teratai group was due to their better detection in the area.
He said the same situation was seen once in Kepayan’s group, involving a prison in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, as well as the immigration depot cases during the second wave.
“Most cases in this group were factory workers in Meru, Klang.
“All the positive cases have been admitted to the hospital and their close contacts have been quarantined to prevent the virus from spreading to other workers.”
“The factory management has also taken steps to isolate its employees who have been identified as close contacts for quarantine,” he said.
To date, Dr. Noor Hisham said that no cases in this group require intensive care unit treatment and no deaths have been reported.
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