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Published on: Thursday, July 22, 2021
By: Anthea Peter
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Kota Kinabalu: After a continuous high of over 600 cases in the past four days, Sabah’s Covid-19 cases dropped to 474 on Wednesday from 657 on Tuesday, with nearly half registering as close contact cases.
Sabah’s Covid-19 spokesperson Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun
(pic) said the prison clusters, which caused Sabah’s caseload to surge the past few days, only registered eight new cases on Wednesday, which attributed to the lower caseload.
The Tembok Kota Kinabalu Cluster (Kepayan Prison) registered zero cases, while the Tembok Dua Cluster (Tawau Prison) registered eight cases.
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PUTRAJAYA: Several areas in Sabah, Pahang and Labuan will be placed under an enhanced movement control order after recording a spike in the number of Covid-19 cases.
Senior Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaako said that five sub-zones in Labuan will be under lockdown where the infectivity on the island as of May 23 is at 2.55 with the possibility of higher infectivity.
“After a risk assessment on the situation there, the government has agreed to enforce the enhanced MCO at five sub-zones in Labuan from May 26 to June 24, ” he said on Monday (May 24).
This will allow authorities to control the movement of the people in the affected areas to stop Covid-19 from infecting other communities.