COVID-19: New Cluster Detected in Sarawak - Health DG

The Health Ministry (MOH) today detected a new cluster at an engineering company in Kuching, Sarawak, and has now called it the Kuching Engineering Cluster.

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham said as of today, two positive cases have been recorded from the cluster, with the first case detected last Thursday.

The first case (case 8694) is an employee at the company, who had received treatment at a medical centre on July 9 after experiencing respiratory symptoms, and was tested COVID-19 positive on the same day.

"So far, 32 close contacts have been identified and screened. They comprise 16 colleagues and 16 family members.

According to the screening results, he said, one has tested positive; 16 were negative and 15 results are still pending.