CORONAVIRUS | The new cases comprise three imported infections and 13 local transmissions.
| Malaysia today recorded 16 new Covid-19 cases, including at a detention centre in Sabah, the fifth immigration facility to be impacted by the virus.
Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, in a statement, said the 16 new cases comprise three imported infections and 13 local transmissions.The non-citizen local transmission cases made up of six people from the Pedas cluster linked to a chicken factory in Negeri Sembilan, two who are close contacts of Patient 8,513 from the cleaning companies cluster in Selangor and one from the Tawau temporary detention centre.
The infected Tawau detainee was detected after a mandatory screening process before deportation to Indonesia. It is the fifth immigration detention centre to be hit by Covid-19 after the facilities in Bukit Jalil, Semenyih, Sepang and Putrajaya. As for the four locally infected Malaysians, two were close contacts of Patient 8,535 from the Kidurong cluster in Sarawak, one was an arrested person who was recently put in lockup and another was from post-operation screening at a hospital in Johor.The new infections in the last 24 hours up to noon bring the cumulative cases to 8,572.
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