600 Penang kids get tested after teacher's politician spouse infected with Covid-19
COVID-19 | Politicians returning from Sabah have caused Covid-19 chaos in Penang and Malacca.
Some 600 students from SK Permatang Janggus in Penaga, Penang have had to get swab tested for Covid-19 and placed under quarantine after a teacher was infected with the virus...
- UPDATED 11.55PM | Added details regarding a case in Johor Bahru.
COVID-19 | Politicians returning from Sabah have caused Covid-19 chaos in Penang and Malacca.
Some 600 students from SK Permatang Janggus in Penaga, Penang have had to get swab tested for Covid-19 and were placed under quarantine after a teacher was infected with the virus.
Bernama reported that the teacher is the wife of a politician who had campaigned during the Sabah state election.
According to the report, the teacher had fallen ill while at school, before being sent for treatment at a hospital in Kedah.
Her Covid-19 positive result prompted the Penang Education Department to close the school for eight days.
"Any further decision will be made after we meet with the Health Ministry," said Penang Education director Abdul Rashid Abdul Samad.
Separately, the Malacca state administration complex has been shut down after Ayer Limau assemblyperson Amiruddin Yusof tested positive.
He tested positive after returning from campaigning in Sabah. He visited the state government complex yesterday.
He told Astro Awani he was initially given a negative result and was allowed to end his quarantine two days ago.
One of his stops at the complex was the cafeteria where he had a drink.
Upon returning home, he was told there was a mix-up and that he was actually Covid-19 positive.
The complex is closed for sanitation.
Meanwhile, The Star reported that a secondary school teacher in Johor Bahru tested positive after coming into close contact with a case linked to the Bakawali cluster.
The English-language daily quoted state health and environment executive committee chairperson R Vidyananthan saying that the teacher had been infected by her husband.
“The husband is among the nine close contacts who tested positive from the Bakawali cluster,” he reportedly said.
He said the laboratory where the husband works has since been closed and undergone decontamination, while staff there have been tested and ordered to undergo quarantine.
In addition, contact tracing has been conducted among teachers and students.
The Bakawali cluster was first reported on Sept 29. Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the index cases for the cluster had travelled in Semporna, Sabah, from Sept 13 to Sept 18.
To date, 15 cases have been detected in the cluster including the four reported today, out of 176 people tested.
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