S'wak assistant transport minister tests positive for Covid-19
CORONAVIRUS | Sarawak Assistant Transport Minister Dr Jerip Susil is now warded at Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) in Kuching after testing positive for Covid-19.
According to online news portal The Borneo Post, the Mambong assemblyperson was admitted into the hospital last night.
CORONAVIRUS | Sarawak Assistant Transport Minister Dr Jerip Susil is now warded at Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) in Kuching after testing positive for Covid-19.
According to online news portal The Borneo Post, the Mambong assemblyperson was admitted into the hospital last night.
“It’s true. I am now in SGH and will be quarantined here for 14 days,” he told Utusan Borneo, as quoted by Borneo Post.
Jerip explained that he was infected following close contact with a person in the Good News Fellowship Conference Church cluster.
He added that one of his workers contracted Covid-19 from that cluster, and then spread the virus to him.
The Borneo Post also reported that Sarawak Deputy Chief Minister Douglas Uggah Embas is currently under self-quarantine after close contact with Jerip at a recent meeting.
The State Disaster Management Committee chairperson’s press officer Edward Subeng confirmed that he as well as Uggah were directed to undergo a 14-day quarantine order.
The online news portal also said it was learned that other state department heads who attended the same meeting as Jerip had also been issued with a quarantine notice.
Meanwhile, it was also reported that the state Deputy Chief Minister Awang Tengah Ali Hasan and Welfare, Community Well Being, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Fatimah Abdullah and Housing and Local Government Minister Dr Sim Kui Hian were placed under quarantine after they attended the same meeting on March 27.
Taking to social media today, Sim shared an image of the home surveillance order issued to him by the state Health Department today.
He was required to be under quarantine from March 27 – the date the meeting was conducted – until April 9.
Meanwhile, former de facto law minister Liew Vui Keong said he was undergoing self-quarantine at home since April 1 after a close contact with a person under investigation (PUI).
According to him, he had met the person when he sent goods to the people in Sandakan between March 18 and 31.
The person, however, tested negative for Covid-19, Liew was quoted as saying by China Press.
Despite this, Liew decided to continue his self-quarantine until April 6.
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