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PUTRAJAYA: Covid-19 infections involving the Pasai Cluster that spread to various districts in Sarawak have now infected six generations since the first case was reported on January 9.
Health Director General Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah said the group that was first detected in Sibu now involves 58 longhouses in Sarawak, and the Ministry of Health (MINSA) has detected 2,363 positives out of 25,500 tests carried out so far.
He said the group occurred when the index case who returned from Johor to attend a family member’s funeral underwent mandatory quarantine in a longhouse that lacked isolation and compliance with standard operating procedures (SOPs).
“Burial customs in a longhouse takes place for three days in a row and involves many visitors from other longhouse,” he said, adding that the group also infected 46 health workers in the affected areas.
Meanwhile, Dr. Noor Hisham said that the Health Ministry was maintaining its projection that the number of new daily cases of Covid-19 would drop to double figures by May.
He said the implementation of the Movement Control Order (MCO), now in its third week, had succeeded in preventing an increase in cases.
“We hope that by the time we get to the fourth week (of the MCO) which is February 13, or as we have extended it to February 18, we will probably see a decrease in cases.
“Based on our calculation, meaning four weeks of OLS followed by conditional OLS, we may be able to reduce the infectivity rate (Rt) of Covid-19 or R-nothing from 1.2 to 0.6,” he said, He added that the Ministry of Health expects the Covid-19 infection curve to flatten out in March or April.
He also urged Malaysians to continue to follow prescribed standard operating procedures and to stay home if there is nothing important to attend to outside.
Meanwhile, at the Covid Assessment Center (CAC) established in Stadium Melawati, Shah Alam said that as of yesterday, 1,048 cases had arrived for evaluation and, of the total, 923 received a release order, 100 were referred to the Covid-19. Low Risk Treatment and Quarantine Center (PKRC) in Malaysia’s Serdang Agro Exhibition Park, eight patients were sent to Sungai Buloh Hospital and 17 people were subjected to home monitoring. -Called
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