Spot checks on business premises

KUCHING: Kuching South City Council (MBKS) is actively conducting spot checks on business operators to ensure their premises comply with the standard operating procedure (SOP). Speaking to the press after checking several premises in Jalan Padungan here early yesterday, Mayor Datuk Wee Hong Seng said, “Today’s special check is to see how things are moving […]

Comply with the SOPs

KUCHING: Residents in the Padawan municipal council (MPP) areas are urged to continue maintaining the highest hygiene as well as adhering to the standard operating procedures (SOPs). Its chairman Lo Khere Chiang issued the reminder because of the detection of new Covid-19 cases in Kuching since Friday (July 10). “Two new positive cases were reported […]

New cluster emerges

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Two more cases, new cluster from engineering company KUCHING: Sarawak recorded two new positive Covid-19 cases in Kuching today (July 12), bringing the total number of positive cases in the state to 579. Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC), in a statement, said that the 578th case was a local 44-year-old woman who underwent a screening […]

Dept traces contacts of new cluster

BINTULU:  The State health department is carrying out contact tracing for Covid-19 cases following the emerging of a new cluster in Kidurong, said its director Dr Chin Zin Hin yesterday. However, he added, active case detection for Covid-19 would not be necessary. Recently, a new cluster has emerged in Kidurong (Bintulu), where six cases were […]

New cluster detected in Sepang

KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry (MOH) has detected a new Covid-19 cluster, this time in Labu Lanjut, Sepang, where five positive cases have been confirmed so far, Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said. He said the index case involved a patient who had been treated for Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) at Serdang hospital […]

New cluster in Sepang Immigration Detention Depot

KUALA LUMPUR: The Ministry of Health (MOH) has detected a new Covid-19 cluster, with six cases, at the Immigration Detention Depot (DTI) in Sepang, Selangor, making it the third cluster involving a DTI. Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah confirmed this in his statement today. Yesterday, he had said that the MOH detected a new cluster […]

New cluster identified at Taman BDC, Kuching

KUCHING: A new Covid-19 cluster has been identified at Taman BDC here, says Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. He said the cluster involved 37 cases and was linked to the Sri Petaling Tabligh gathering index cases. “The Taman BDC cluster has mainly infected the family members, mosque-goers and their colleagues involving three generations,” […]

‘Let’s not create new cluster’

KUCHING: The government has every right to protect the life of parliamentarians, the Speaker and staff from the danger of Covid-19, thus the one-day Parliament sitting on May 18. Minister of Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives Datuk Seri Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said in deciding on a one-day sitting, it is very important that the government […]