07 Mar 2021 / 07:10 H.
KUALA TERENGGANU, March 6: The decision of a family to hold a tahlil event with quite a large number of attendees without complying with the standard operating procedures (SOP) were among the causes of the increase in the number of new COVID-19 cases in Terengganu today.
State Health director Nor Azimi Yunus said the cases involved several families from Johor, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Penang who returned to Terengganu for a grandfather’s funeral.
“Usually, a funeral will be followed by a tahlil event. Forty-five family members attended the event and 15 of them were tested positive for COVID-19.
“There were symptomatic individuals among the family members, hence the huge number of infection. Those individuals should not have made that inter-state travel or should have complied with the SOP to avoid infection,” he said in a posting on his Facebook page today.
18 Jan 2021 / 14:05 H.
KUALA TERENGGANU, Jan 18: Four Terengganu executive councillors’ (exco) offices in Wisma Darul Iman here, are closed for 14 days from yesterday until Jan 30 after five positive COVID-19 cases were found in the building.
State Health Department director, Dr Nor Azimi Yunus said the closures were to enable sanitation works to be carried out in the effort to curb the spread of the pandemic in the area.
The four offices which were closed were those of the State Local Government, Housing, Health and Environment Committee’s office; State Human Development, Dakwah, and Information Committee’s office;
State Agriculture, Food Industries, Plantations, Commodities and Rural Development’s office and the State Syariah Implementation, Education and Higher Education’s office.
Visitors shopping for clothes and other items at Pasar Besar Kedai Payang. Bernama
KUALA TERENGGANU: Tourist destinations around Terengganu seem to come “alive” again after the arrival of tourists following the relaxation of restrictions on interstate and inter-district travel since Dec 7.
Locations such as Pasar Besar Kedai Payang here as well as Pantai Mengabang Telipot and Pantai Teluk Ketapang in Kuala Nerus received a relatively unusual number of tourists compared to before.
Some eateries selling various types of seafood such as squid dipped in flour had to open earlier than usual (3pm) because many customers had started queuing from 2pm.
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