At a press conference, health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said there were no new deaths, meaning the death toll remained at 121.
He also said 70 people had recovered and had been discharged, bringing the total number of recoveries to 8,070.
With today’s new cases, the total number of infections recorded to date stands at 8,535.
Noor Hisham said 344 patients are still being treated, with three in the intensive care unit. None of these four patients require respiratory assistance.
Of the two imported cases, one involves a Malaysian and another is a foreigner who is a permanent resident.
Noor Hisham said the local infections involved a person who was screened at a tahfiz centre in KL; one close contact of a positive case in Selangor; one person who was screened in Negeri Sembilan prior to returning to Sarawak; and one person from the Kidurong cluster in Sarawak.
He also announced the Kidurong cluster as the country’s newest cluster.
“So far, six cases have been detected in this cluster. The index case is a student at a public institution of higher learning, who tested positive on June 12.”
Active case detection, Noor Hisham said, found the patient’s parents and two siblings were also positive for Covid-19.
“A friend of the father has also been found to be positive for the virus.”
Noor Hisham said the source of the infection for the index case was still being investigated while contact tracing is continuing.
A total of 231 close contacts were identified and 163 have been screened. All of them have tested negative.
Noor Hisham also said the ministry will continue its Covid-19 surveillance activities even after the recovery movement control order (RMCO) ends.
On whether Covid-19 could be transmitted through food and animals, a question which has been raised following a fresh outbreak stemming from a market in Beijing, China, Noor Hisham said studies were still being carried out on whether the outbreak was related to food, animals or the cleanliness of the market.
“There is no conclusive proof yet that the virus came from animals or fish,” he said, adding the early conclusion is that the outbreak was related to the cleanliness of the market.
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