KUCHING, April 22: A cluster of 31 new Covid-19 cases emerged in Kuching today, linked to a 20-year-old man who attended a dinner gathering at a restaurant in CityONE Megamall before proceeding to a bistro at Jalan Song.
This triggered a new cluster dubbed the Icom Cluster in Kuching here.
State Disaster Management Committee (SDMC), in its daily update on the Covid-19 situation in Sarawak, disclosed that the social gathering cluster involved participants who were infected during a dinner gathering at a restaurant in CityONE Megamall and later at a bistro at Jalan Song on April 13.
The index case of the cluster or Case 23,951 is a 20-year-old man detected via symptomatic screening at a private hospital on April 18.
The man had attended a training session on April 14 together with speakers invited from outside Sarawak.
Further investigation found that the participants who had attended the dinner gathering were employees of a property management consultant agency located at Icom Square in Jalan Pending here.
As of today, a total of 33 individuals have been screened, whereby two tested negative while no cases are pending test results.
With this new cluster declared, Sarawak now has 54 active clusters of which 11 clusters recorded an increase in daily infections totalling 28 cases.
The clusters are Tarat Tani which picked up 10 cases, Jalan Disa (4 cases), Duranda Emas and Kampung Tengah Betong (3 cases each), Jalan Baji and Sungai Banus (2 cases each) while Bulatan Aman, Pujut Satu, Tembok Sri Aman and Jalan Bambangan recorded one case each. — DayakDaily
