21,466 people in EMCO areas have undergone COVID-19 test

A total of 21,466 people in the Enhanced Movement Control (EMCO) areas have undergone COVID-19 testing until April 26, 2020.

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said of the total, 638 cases or 2.97 per cent were found to be COVID-19 positive.

"It is found that out of this positive number of COVID19, 388 cases (61 per cent) are non-Malaysian citizens and the remaining 250 cases (39 per cent) are Malaysian citizens," he said at a press conference here Sunday.

The EMCO areas with new cases today are Menara City One Plaza (1 new case, 52 cases in total), Malayan Mansion (5 new cases, 12 cases in total) and Pusat Bandar Utara and around the Kuala Lumpur Wholesale Market (9 new cases, 55 cases in total).

For activities focused on madrasah or tahfiz schools, as of April 25, 2020, 6,229 students, teachers and staff had undergone COVID-19 tests.

Of these, 341 people were diagnosed with COVID-19 (5.47 percent).

Meanwhile, as of April 24, 2020 at 5 pm, a total of 12,672 people had undergone COVID-19 tests at a quarantine station that housed travellers from overseas.

Of those, 139 or 1.1 percent were found COVID-19 positive.

"Of the positive COVID-19 cases, the countries visited were: 99 cases visited Indonesia, 14 cases visited the United Kingdom, 13 cases were in Singapore, 5 cases visited Turkey, 3 cases visited the Netherlands, 2 cases visited the United States, and 1 case each visiting Thailand, France and Bangladesh.

"This shows that the concentrated approach activities taken by the government so far have shown promising results. This is expected to curb the spread among these high-risk groups," he added.

The MOH also expects more positive cases to be identified in the near future as activities of this focused approach were still ongoing.