SIBU: The Narcotics Department of the Sarawak police contingent headquarters seized drugs worth RM643,157 after detaining an unemployed man here on Thursday (Dec 1).
Covid-19 (March 12): 1,575 new cases, 3 deaths
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COVID-19 | The Health Ministry today reported 1,575 new Covid-19 cases, of which more than half were reported in the Klang Valley alone.
The Klang Valley accounted for 54.8 percent of new cases followed by Sarawak (11 percent), Johor (8.6 percent) and Penang (8.4 percent).
Notably, there were 25 new cases reported in Perlis today.
Malaysian citizens (80.9 percent) made up almost all the new cases.
Active cases: 17,074
Three new deaths were reported today, bringing the national Covid-19 death toll to 1,203.
The three victims are from Kuala Lumpur, Sabah and Selangor respectively. One victim - a foreigner - was brought to the Canselor Tuanku Muhriz Hospital in , Cheras, Kuala Lumpur only after he had died.
PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry has detected five Covid-19 outbreaks within communities in Sarawak and Selangor.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said they were among 10 new clusters classified by the ministry on Friday (March 12).
One of them is the Jalan Kunci Air cluster, which has cases spread throughout the Gombak and Hulu Selangor districts. The index case of this cluster developed symptoms before testing positive for Covid-19 on March 1. A total of 205 individuals had undergone screening under this cluster, of which 18 were confirmed as positive cases, said Dr Noor Hisham.
The Sena cluster in Sarawak has 61 positive cases which originated from the locality of Lorong Sena 1A in Lutong, Miri.
KUCHING: The conditional movement control order in Sarawak will be extended for a further two weeks from March 16 to 29, Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas said.
He said at the state disaster management committee briefing here on Friday (March 12) that the decision was made because the number of positive cases in the state was still high.
With 173 new cases reported on Friday, the state s tally now stands at 12,051.
In other Covid-19-related developments, Uggah said an outbreak among family members in Sri Aman led to a new cluster involving a secondary school.
He said the Jalan Main Bazaar cluster was one of three new community clusters identified in the state on Friday.