Sarawak hikes random testing of Sentosa cluster: Uggah

: The Sarawak State Disaster Management Committee will increase further random testings for the Sentosa cluster which recorded eight new positive Covid-19 cases today, said its chairman Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah EmbasUggah, who is also the Deputy Chief Minister I, said since the positive cases for the cluster were increasing, the Sarawak State Health Department had been instructed to further expand the random testings in the areas around Kota Sentosa.

Meanwhile, he said the JPBN meeting today had also decided that movements between divisions in Sarawak were not encouraged except for the movements of the public for certain cases, as positive cases in Kuching and Samarahan divisions were increasing. In addition, Uggah said the meeting also decided that all Sarawakians flying home from abroad and transiting in Peninsular Malaysia, Labuan, Sabah, Brunei or Singapore were required to undergo quarantine at the final destination for 14 days.

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