KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 2 — Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah announced today two new Covid-19 clusters in Selangor, noting that the index patients were both recent returnees from virus hot spot Sabah.
The Seri Setia cluster in Selangor started with a 36-year-old Malaysian man who visited Semporna on the east coast of Sabah from September 16 to 20 and tested positive for the coronavirus on September 27.
The Seri Anggerik cluster in Hulu Selangor started with a 37-year-old Malaysian man who travelled to the north Borneo state from September 9 to 18 and started showing symptoms of an infection from September 25.
Contract tracing of the index case in the Seri Setia cluster revealed three more positive Covid-19 cases, all of whom are Malaysians.
Dr Noor Hisham said a total 23 people in Seri Setia have been screened and 14 were found negative; five more are awaiting their test results.
As for the Seri Anggerik cluster, contact tracing of the index case turned up 14 more positive cases.
“A total 67 individuals were screened where 15 tested negative and 38 are still awaiting results,” he said in a news conference in Putrajaya that was aired on the Health Ministry’s Facebook page.
The source of infections from both clusters are still under investigation.
