Health D-G: New Covid-19 cluster among foreign construction workers discovered in Setia Alam | Malay Mail

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Health D-G: New Covid-19 cluster among foreign construction workers discovered in Setia Alam

Saturday, 09 May 2020 06:01 PM MYTHealth director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said a new Covid-19 cluster with at least 12 confirmed cases has been discovered among a group of foreign construction workers in Setia Alam. — Picture by Choo Choy May

Dr Noor Hisham explained that the Ministry of Health was alerted by a private hospital to its discovery on Wednesday after screening foreign workers who were set to return to work. Dr Noor Hisham said checks found that the three positive cases were all Bangladeshi nationals who lived in shared accommodation together with 18 other people, triggering an immediate tracing exercise of the three patients’ close contacts.“From this total, 12 cases were found to be positive with all cases involving Bangledeshi nationals; nine cases have come back negative while the results of seven cases are still pending,” he wrote in a statement today.

 

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