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Fifteen schools in Kedah are being closed since Jan 18 when 525 students and 25 teachers were detected to have contracted the virus involving the education cluster.

Chow said parents are concerned over COVID-19 cases detection at educational institutions as this involved the safety of their children.

SK Jeram and SK Pengkalan Balak in Melaka have been ordered to close for three days after a total of 10 COVID-19 cases were detected.

Preliminary investigations found that the siblings had contracted the virus from their aunt who had returned from Labuan.

The disinfection operation was among the preventive measures taken against the spread of COVID-19 in the district.

Five schools in the Kubang Pasu and Padang Terap districts in Kedah, which have been linked to the Sivagangga cluster, have been closed with immediate effect from yesterday until Aug 29 in a bid to cu

Nine schools in Sibu district were closed today as the routes leading to these schools were not passable after Sungai Rajang overflowed its banks since early today.

A spokesman at the Sarawak Disaster Management Committee Secretariat, Major Ismail Mahedin, from the Malaysian Civil Defence Force, said five of the schools were in Bintulu and four in Miri.

Terengganu Education Department director Shafruddin Ali Hussin said of the 27 schools closed, nine schools are in Setiu district.

Five schools in Tumpat and Pasir Mas will be closed tomorrow as the flood situation has not improved in both districts.

He said two of the schools, Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Kompleks Gong Badak and SK Bukit Guntong in Kuala Nerus, were being used as relief centres for the flood victims.

The flood situation in Terengganu is improving which will enable schooling session in 40 of the 63 schools that were closed today to run as usual.

Twenty-seven families in Kampung Rukom Ulu, here, were evacuated this afternoon after their village was flooded following continuous rain since last night.

Three schools in Terengganu had to be closed this morning due to the floods, raising the total number of schools closed in the state to six.

Its director Jaafar Ismail said these comprise eight schools in Kuala Krai district, five in Tanah Merah and two in Jeli.

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