PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry has identified a new Covid-19 cluster in Sarawak, after six cases were linked to a student in Kidurong, Bintulu.
Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the index case is a student of a public university, who tested positive for the virus on June 12.
“Our subsequent active detection activity found that the student’s family members - mother, father and two siblings are also positive. “A friend of the index case’s father also tested positive, making this the country’s latest cluster, ” he said at the ministry’s Covid-19 press conference here on Friday .A total of 163 of them have been screened and have all tested negative.The index case, who studies in Mukah, had returned to her home in Bintulu in March.She was found to be positive following a test conducted on returning university students, which is a state requirement.
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