30 Dec 2020 / 20:23 H.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Ministry of Health (MOH) has detected eight more new Covid-19 clusters today, three in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur and one each in Selangor, Johor, Pahang, Kedah and Perak.
Health director-general, Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham said the new development brings the total clusters in Malaysia to 506 and there are 223 active clusters being monitored.
In Kuala Lumpur, he said the first of the eight clusters was the Jalan Stesen construction site cluster involving transmission at the workplace in Lembah Pantai district.
“The first case of the cluster (case number 94863) was reported positive for Covid-19 on Dec 21 through screening of a symptomatic individual and up to today, 607 individuals have been screened with 54 found positive,” he said in a statement in Covid-19 development here today.