PETALING JAYA: A new Covid-19 cluster was detected today, identified as the Selamat cluster in Semporna, Sabah, said the Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (pix) in a statement.
A total of 118 individuals were tested and two were found positive with Covid-19 while the rest are awaiting test results.
“The index case is a 32 year-old local woman who contracted the virus on Sept 14 when she was admitted at the Tawau Hospital for premature (birth) delivery. Upon active case detection, we discovered another Covid-19 positive case which was the medical officer treating the index case,” Noor Hisham said.
Investigations are still ongoing to find how the index case contracted the virus. In the meantime, the cluster and situation there is being closely monitored.
Meanwhile, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the country continues to rise up the five figure mark, at 10,052 cases as at noon today.
There were 21 new cases reported today. Of these, five are locals who contracted the virus from abroad. Two returned from New Zealand, one from India, one from Pakistan and the other from China.
The remaining 16 contracted the virus locally; 15 of whom are locals and one foreigner.
A total of 15 cases were allowed to return home yesterday, which raised the total number of recoveries to 9,250.
The number of active cases now stands at 674.
Thirteen patients are in intensive care with two requiring ventilator support. The death toll remains at 128, 1.27% of the total number of cases.
