Workplace clusters record highest number of Covid-19 cases - Zafrul
Covid-19 clusters involving the workplace, which stood at 735 clusters, recorded the highest number of cases at 60,000 cases from June 1 to July 23, said National Recovery Plan (NRP) coordinating minister Tengku Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz.
The finance minister said of the total clusters, 373 or 50.7 percent involved the manufacturing sub-category with 35,642 cases reported.
“This is higher than...
Covid-19 clusters involving the workplace, which stood at 735 clusters, recorded the highest number of cases at 60,000 cases from June 1 to July 23, said National Recovery Plan (NRP) coordinating minister Tengku Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz.
The finance minister said of the total clusters, 373 or 50.7 percent involved the manufacturing sub-category with 35,642 cases reported.
“This is higher than the number of clusters in other categories throughout the same period,” he said in reply to questions raised regarding the NRP in Dewan Rakyat here today.
Zafrul said cluster categories were used to identify locations or localities so that targeted actions to control and prevent the spread of Covid-19 infection could be implemented effectively by the Health Ministry (MOH) in collaboration with the relevant authorities.
Khalid Abd Samad (Amanah-Shah Alam) raised questions regarding the International Trade and Industry Ministry’s action that allowed factories to open without control, which he claimed had led to the rise in Covid-19 cases in the country.
Its Minister Azmin Ali responded to the allegations saying the decision to allow factories to operate was made collectively in the National Security Council (NSC) meeting, adding that the ministry’s role was only to coordinate so that authorised parties could operate in compliance with the standard operating procedures (SOPs) set.
Azmin also showed a placard of data from the National Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre (CPRC) and the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) that indicated only 8.8 percent of new Covid-19 cases were recorded in the manufacturing sector out of 408,134 cases nationwide between June 1 and July 23.
Earlier, the special meeting of the Dewan Rakyat was thrown into commotion when opposition MPs insisted that Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, who had briefed Parliament on the NRP this morning, should be answering the questions instead of Zafrul.
In the commotion, Deputy Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob stood up to explain that Zafrul was replying in his capacity as the NRP coordinating minister.
- Bernama
