Medical frontliners taking down particulars of coming for swab tests at a community hall recently. – FIle Photo
KUCHING (May 13): A birthday celebration has sparked Sarawak’s latest Covid-19 cluster, dubbed Jalan Lilin Cluster, which has 22 infections detected so far today, said the State Disaster Management Committee (SDMC).
The committee said the community cluster, which is the only new cluster announced in Sarawak today, involved a birthday celebration at Jalan Lilin, Taman Tunku, in Miri recently.
“A total of 262 individuals were screened in which 22 cases were detected positive for Covid-19 (including the index cases) and 48 cases are still awaiting laboratory results,” it said in its Covid-19 daily update.
All 22 cases were referred to the Miri and Limbang Hospitals and admitted to the Quarantine and Low-Risk Treatment Centres (PKRC).
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Meanwhile, SDMC said the State Health Department has declared the end to the Jalan Sanyan Cluster in Sibu.
It also said the number of active clusters in the state is 83 clusters with a total of 10 clusters recording 102 new cases today. The Sebujok Sri Aman Cluster recorded the highest number of new infections at 55.
SDMC also informed that there are currently 27 districts in the state in the red zone, while one district is orange, 10 are yellow and two districts, Telang Usan and Kabong, are green.
The Health Ministry classifies 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.