Covid-19: Sarawak begins active case detection in two residential areas in Samarahan district
Monday, 27 Apr 2020 08:53 PM MYTSDMC chairman Datuk Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah said SDMC began implementing active case detection in Taman Desa Ilmu and Taman Uni-Garden in Samarahan district today. — Picture courtesy of Sarawak Public Communications Unit
SDMC chairman Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah said this is to contain and control the spread of Covid-19 infections in these areas.“We believe we need to have a strategy that is more aggressive to cut off the transmission and spread of the virus,” he said at his daily Covid-19 briefing to the media. “We also need to study more areas,” he said, adding that ACD is not a form of enhanced movement control order .
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