COVID-19 | The Health Ministry has ended its monitoring of the Covid-19 cluster at the Bukit Jalil Immigration Detention Depot (IDD), over three months since the cluster was first reported on May 21.
This comes after no new cases were detected in the cluster for 28 days. However, new outbreaks involving detention facilities were recently detected at the Semenyih IDD for the second time, as well as at Tawau Prison and the Lahad Datu district police headquarters lockup.
Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the Bukit Jalil outbreak involved 653 cases in Cheras, Kepong, and Port Dickson, making it the second-largest cluster to date behind the Sri Petaling Tabligh cluster’s 3,375 cases.
The 653 cases comprised mainly non-Malaysians, except for three cases. One of them, the Indian national Zeawdeen Kadar Masdar (Case 7468) had died on June 12.
The Bukit Jalil IDD cluster was also the largest active cluster until its monitoring period ended.
That spot is now taken over by the Benteng Lahad Datu cluster with 128 cases so far, followed by the Tawar cluster’s 78 cases and the Sungai cluster’s 26 cases.
The Bukit Jalil cluster is the 96th cluster to have ended its monitoring period so far. Ten clusters are still being monitored.
Yesterday, the ministry also ended its monitoring of four other clusters, namely Sivagangga (45 cases), Muda (three cases), Meranti (two cases), and Kurau (five cases).
Noor Hisham previously said genetic analysis of virus samples from the Sivagangga cluster and the ongoing Tawar cluster has found the virus to belong to the same clade.
This has led authorities to suspect the Sivagangga and Tawar clusters may have a common source of infection, although an epidemiological link has yet to be proven.
Virus samples from both clusters also contain the D614G mutation, which some experts believe could make the virus even more infectious. - Mkini
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