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Covid: Sabah records two new workplace clusters

KOTA KINABALU, July 21 — Sabah today recorded two new clusters of Covid-19 infection at the workplace, namely, the Sawit Lung Cluster in Beluran and KKIP Selatan Industry Cluster, here.

“Three of his colleagues were also found to be positive and out of the 40 contacts screened, 11 comprising fellow workers and family members were detected to be positive,” he said in a statement, here. He said the index case who worked as an operator at a plastics factory, started having symptoms for the viral infection on July 9 and was admitted to the Low-Risk Covid-19 Quarantine and Treatment Centre.

 

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