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KUCHING (Jan 8): Kuching is now a Covid-19 orange zone again after 10 new local infection cases were reported in the district today.
State Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) said with the new cases, the district had recorded 25 local infections in the past 14 days, changing its status from yellow to orange.
Meanwhile, the Samarahan district’s status changed from green to yellow zone after one new local infection was recorded today.
“Miri, Sibu, Bintulu, Meradong, Bukit Mabong, Lawas and Sri Aman remain as yellow zones with a total of 19 cases reported in the last 14 days.
“The remaining 31 districts in the state remain green zones,” the committee said in its daily update statement today.
Four cases were detected in the Keranji Tabuan Cluster in Kuching, bringing its cumulative cases to 10.
The Ministry of Health has classified districts with more than 40 cases in a two-week period as red zones, 21 to 40 cases as orange zones, one to 20 cases as yellow zones and those with no cases as green zones.
One case was also detected in Kuching’s Stutong Cluster, making its total cases to 12.
An additional three cases were detected from the Bah Sayap Cluster in Miri, bringing total cases for the cluster to nine.
Cluster Mador in Meradong remained at eight cases as no additional cases were detected from the cluster.