KUALA LUMPUR, June 20 — The Health Ministry (MOH) has detected a new Covid-19 cluster, this time in Labu Lanjut, Sepang, where five positive cases have been confirmed so far, Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said.
He said the index case involved a patient who had been treated for Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) at Serdang hospital before being tested positive for the virus on June 5.
“Active Case Detection (ACD) activities found that the patient’s two children and two grandchildren had also tested positive. Three of them stay at the same house while the other lives elsewhere,” Dr Noor Hisham said in a statement here today.
He said 29 close contacts have been identified and screened of whom 25 tested negative for the virus.
The source of infection is being investigated, although the ministry suspects it could have been from visitation activity, he added.
— Bernama
