KUCHING GOES BACK TO YELLOW
KUCHING: Kuching returned to the yellow zone after one new Covid-19 case was reported yesterday, bringing the total number of positive cases in Sarawak to 687.
Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) said the new case was a local transmission, involving a 26-year-old Indian national working as a fisherman at a fishing vessel company here.
The case has undergone the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rT-PCR) swab screening for Covid-19 for the purpose of returning to his country of origin at a private hospital here last Thursday.
Laboratory test results found that his nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swab were positive for Covid-19 on the same day.
The case showed no signs or symptoms of the virus, and was admitted to Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) for further treatment.
SDMC said this case had been categorised as local transmission as the individual had no history of travelling abroad since arriving in Malaysia in July 2019.
Contact tracing involving colleagues of the case was also carried out.
As of Friday (Aug 21), there are seven active clusters involving 59 cases. The clusters are the Engineering Firm Cluster with eight cases, Mambong Cluster (seven), Sentosa Cluster (31), Melbourne PUI Cluster (three), Kuching Construction Company Cluster (two), Satok Market Cluster (four) and Alam Cluster Bintulu (four).
Meanwhile, SDMC said there were no cases of recovery and discharge from hospital, and the total number of recovered patients remained at 661 people or 96.22
percent.
Seven individuals are still receiving treatment at the hospital isolation wards.
There were 17 new person-under-investigation (PUI) cases reported and 14 are still awaiting laboratory results.
On the number of person-under-surveillance (PUS), there are 52 PUS cases who have been checked into designated hotels to undergo quarantine, bringing the total number of PUS at 14 hotels to 692.
To date, 22,004 PUS have completed their quarantine period.
