PUTRAJAYA, April 16 — The Ministry of Health (MOH) will focus more on monitoring and screening tahfiz students nationwide as Covid-19 cases are increasing among them, said Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. He said this was because they were likely to get the Covid-19...
Thursday, 16 Apr 2020 10:15 PM MYT
PUTRAJAYA, April 16 — The Ministry of Health will focus more on monitoring and screening tahfiz students nationwide as Covid-19 cases are increasing among them, said Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. “We have screened 2,697 students who are still living in madrasah so far and 250 or 9.3 per cent of them tested positive for Covid-19,” he said at the daily press conference on Covid-19 developments here today.
Meanwhile, Dr Noor Hisham said that 28 Covid-19 clusters were detected throughout the country but some of them had been inactive because they had exceeded the 14-day incubation period.
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