PUTRAJAYA: The health ministry has detected one new Covid-19 cluster in the country over the last 24 hours.
Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said it is known as the Teluk cluster. It was detected in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
The cluster’s three index cases were screened during workplace screenings on Nov 9 and Nov 10.
As at Nov 12, a total of 128 people have been screened with 30 testing positive, 97 negative and one waiting for their result.
On the existing clusters, Noor Hisham said those with a large number of new infections include the Cergas cluster affecting Kelantan and Negeri Sembilan with 221 new cases. There are now 724 positive cases from the cluster.
Meanwhile, the Kaya cluster affecting Negeri Sembilan, Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, Selangor, Melaka and Johor recorded 51 new cases pushing its total number of cases to 754.
The Damanlela construction site cluster involving Kuala Lumpur and Selangor recorded 30 new cases, and the Bayan cluster involving Penang, Kedah and Perak has 21.
Meanwhile, the Jaya cluster involving Negeri Sembilan and Selangor reported 20 new cases in the last 24 hours. - FMT
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