Published on: Monday, March 01, 2021
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PETALING JAYA: The health ministry has detected seven new Covid-19 clusters in the past 24 hours, health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said today.
In a statement, Noor Hisham said five were related to the workplace, and one each linked to the community and high-risk group.
Three clusters were detected in Johor, two in Selangor and one each in Kuala Lumpur and Kelantan.
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Clusters that recorded the highest spike in cases today are the Jalan Kempas Tiga (334), Industri Sungai Gadut (128) and Tembok Tapah (80).
The seven new clusters are:
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- Desa Empat – a workplace cluster in Kuala Selangor. The first few cases tested positive on Feb 24 after a targeted screening of employees at a supermarket in Desa Coalfields, Sungai Buloh. A total of 28 people have been screened with 18 found positive.
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Covid-19 (March 1): 1,828 new cases, 5 deaths
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COVID-19 | The Health Ministry today reported 1,828 new Covid-19 cases where new cases in the Klang Valley are continuing to fall.
New cases in Selangor (453) have not been this low since Dec 27 last year. Johor reported the highest number of new cases (490), mostly from a single factory cluster.
Four states - Pahang, Malacca, Putrajaya and Perlis - reported new cases in the single digit.
Locals accounted for 58.1 percent of the new cases reported today.
Active cases: 25,524
Intubated: 90
There were more patients who recovered from Covid-19 compared to the number of new cases, bringing down the total active cases further.
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