Health minister: 276 clusters detected since start of Covid-19 pandemic
COVID-19 | A total of 276 clusters have been detected since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country at the end of last year, with 151 still active and125 have ended.
Health Minister Dr Adham Baba said of the 151 active clusters, residential clusters recorded the highest number, with 64 clusters.
COVID-19 | A total of 276 clusters have been detected since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country at the end of last year, with 151 still active and125 have ended.
Health Minister Dr Adham Baba said of the 151 active clusters, residential clusters recorded the highest number, with 64 clusters.
“This was followed by workplace clusters with 63 clusters, detention clusters (nine); high-risk group clusters (health personnel and senior citizens) (nine); religious clusters (other than Seri Petaling Tabligh cluster) (three) and import clusters (three),” he said in a written reply during the Minister’s Question Time at the Dewan Rakyat sitting today.
He was responding to a question from Mohd Fasiah Mohd Fakeh (Bersatu-Sabak Bernam) who asked the Health Minister to state the number of Covid-19 clusters in the country, how many have been successfully controlled and how many were still active.
Adham said the largest cluster ever reported to the National Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre (CPRC) was the Seri Petaling Tabligh cluster, involving 3,375 cases and 42,023 people screened.
“The first case of the cluster was confirmed on March 11 and the cluster was officially ended on July 8. The index cases were individuals who attended a religious gathering in the Sri Petaling Mosque and the cause was believed to be an imported infection from Indonesia,” he said.
Yesterday, 972 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded in Malaysia, bringing the total of active cases with infectivity to 11,308 cases.
- Bernama
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