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DAP reps want action after over 400 Covid-19 cases, deaths at Tangkak factory
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Two Johor assemblypersons have called for action to prevent more Covid-19 related deaths linked to a microelectronics factory based in the Tanjung Agas Industrial Zone, Muar, Johor.
Tangkak assemblyperson Ee Chin Li, Bentayan assemblyperson Ng Yak Howe and Johor DAP executive committee member Lim Eng Guan in a joint statement today said operations of STMicroelectronics (STM) manufacturing facility had led to 400 positive Covid-19 cases and 15 deaths from mid-June to date.
They said the Health Ministry had on July 9 confirmed the Persiaran Agas workplace cluster, after a first round of screening, based.
JOHOR BARU: Variants of concern are suspected to be the cause of 13 Covid-19 deaths involving patients linked to the Tanjung Agas cluster in Tangkak.
State health and environment committee chairman R. Vidyananthan said that as of Wednesday (July 28), a total 462 Covid-19 cases had been detected from the cluster with about 44.8% being workers from a semiconductor factory in the district. The index patient for the cluster was a worker from the factory who started experiencing symptoms such as fever since June 26 but continued working until June 28. The worker tested positive for Covid-19 on July 2. On that day, the Tangkak District Health Department conducted an investigation on the factory, and based on contact tracing and screening, several other cases have been identified involving workers there.