By Olivia Miwil - June 26, 2021 @ 8:51pm
TAWAU: Sabah has recorded a new Covid-19 cluster involving a detention centre here.
State Covid-19 spokesperson Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun said the Tembok cluster was detected when the index case tested positive on June 21.
This was 10 days after he was brought in from Lahad Datu police lockup to a quarantine block.
"The screening also found three other cellmates infected on June 22.
"Following the finding, close contact screening was done on 61 people whereby five of them are also positive for Covid-19 including three wardens and two inmates," he said in a statement.
Sabah recorded 189 Covid-19 cases with the bed occupancy rate at hospitals and low risk treatment centres at 32.61 per cent.
Masidi, who is also Local Government and Housing Minister, said the relevant agencies had made inspections at the factories in the east coast of Sabah between June 13 and 23.
"From the inspections held at 30 factories in Tawau, 10 were found to have violated the standard operating procedures (SOPs) whereby only 60 per cent of the workforce is allowed.
"Meanwhile in Lahad Datu, 36 factories have been inspected and all are adhering to the SOPs (on workers capacity). Only four workers at a factory were compounded for not using face masks."
Today, Sabah had administered 15,994 Covid-19 doses which brings to it a cumulative number of 152,937 people having received two doses of Covid-19 vaccines.
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