Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) chairperson Douglas Uggah Embas wants Dayaks in the state to take stock from the Pasai cluster as one of the reasons not to return to their longhouses or villages during this Gawai Festival which begins tomorrow.

He said the cluster in Sibu district, categorised under Import B for cases from inter-state travelling and funeral gathering, came as the most notorious in the state so far, which had resulted in 2,963 cases and 29 deaths.

“(Due to these cases), I plead to fellow Dayaks, please avoid returning to your longhouses and kampung (villages) this year. To those in...