The Sandakan public market has closed for a week starting today to allow sanitisation and disinfection activities following the detection of a positive Covid-19 case there.

Sandakan health officer Sundusin Nganro said the market will reopen earlier if the cleaning work can be done in less than a week.

Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, at his tri-weekly media conference on Covid-19 in Putrajaya yesterday, said the new case in Sandakan, which has been a Covid-19 green zone for two months, involved a local man.

- Bernama