KUCHING, May 8: A 47-year-old Covid-19 positive woman has infected 19 people from three villages and two primary schools in Tebedu District, thus sparking the newly declared Tebedu Mawang Cluster.
This is one of two new Covid-19 clusters announced in Sarawak today. The other cluster identified is Jelalong Cluster in Sebauh involving a longhouse with 22 cases.
State Disaster Management Committee (SDMC), in its daily update report on Covid-19 situation in Sarawak, revealed that the Tebedu Mawang Cluster is a community cluster that involved two villages in Tebedu.
The index case or Case 30,942 was a local woman detected from symptomatic screening at the Tebedu Health Clinic on April 29 and found positive of Covid-19 on April 30.
The patient who was infected from the community, then spread the virus to family members as well as close and casual contacts in three nearby villages including two primary schools in the Tebedu District.
Surveillance activities on Influenza Like Illness (ILI) at Tebedu Health Clinic and active case detection on family and close contacts to the index cases uncovered 17 more positive cases.
As of today, SDMC informed that 107 individuals have been screened, whereby 20 cases including the index case were positive, 86 tested negative while one case is still pending lab test results.
All cases have been referred to Serian Hospital and admitted to the Quarantine and Low-Risk Treatment Centre (PKRC) Serian for isolation and treatment.
SDMC also declared the end of four clusters namely Semuja Immigration Depot Cluster in Serian, Lorong Desa Senadin in Miri, Kampung Baru Hilir in Samarahan and Jalan Badarudin in Kuching after no new local cases were reported in the last 28 days.
With that, the number of active clusters in Sarawak now stood at 75 with 10 clusters registered an increase in daily infections of 49 cases in total.
They are Jalan Limbang (24 cases), Jalan Disa (9 cases), Sungai Ngungun (4 cases), Jalan Selirik, Sungai Duan, Sains Bakam, Jalan Agama and Tanjung Kibong (2 cases each) while Bukit Aman and Duranda Emas one case each. — DayakDaily
