Covid-19 case in Penang: Tracing the evolving Tawar Cluster — Boo Soon Yew | Malay Mail

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AUGUST 16 — It is sometimes perplexing when we try to comprehend and piece together information, what’s more if it is about a disease that can be right at your doorstep.. or even next to you at your hospital bed !! That’s what happened in Penang last Thursday when news broke of a positive...

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But the commendable way it happened was how the alert was sounded by the Kedah Health Inspector who had alerted hospitals at 7.30pm on Aug 12. And this was a reaction to the index case 9113, who would prove to be starter point of the Tawar Cluster which has since reached a total of 33 positive cases on Aug 15 after contact tracing was done.

Finally it was explained that case 9149 was a visitor to case 9113 when he was in hospital. Question now is which hospital? This would be the very same private hospital in Kedah that would add on six cases to the Tawar Cluster, one patient and five staff.

 

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