This includes all participants of a meeting he had attended on Oct 3. The meeting was attended by high-level officials including Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and Noor Hisham himself, among others.
Zulkifli, whose Covid-19 test came back positive yesterday, was also in stable condition, according to the health DG.
“The district health offices are still in the process of identifying his close contacts and conducting risk-assessments and screenings,” Noor Hisham said.
Meanwhile, on the 688 new local transmissions, Noor Hisham said 661 involved Malaysians and 27 were foreigners.
Kedah reported the most number of cases with 397, followed by Sabah with 219 cases and Selangor with 38.
There were cases reported in most other states; Perak (8), Negeri Sembilan (7), Johor (6), Kuala Lumpur (4), Sarawak (3), Penang (3), Terengganu (1), Labuan (1) and Putrajaya (1).
Almost all states reported new cases involving those who had returned from Sabah.
Kedah’s huge number was mainly down to the Tembok cluster which reported 394 new cases, which Noor Hisham said made up 57% of all new cases today.
Of this number, 391 were Malaysians and the remaining three were foreigners. This pushes the total number of positive cases from the cluster to 1,047.
Noor Hisham said, however, that this cluster is an isolated cluster that occurred in a prison facility, which is also already under an Enhanced Movement Control Order (EMCO).
The three other cases in Kedah were from the Bah Sintok cluster. The cluster now has a total of 15 positive cases.
Meanwhile, in Sabah, the Bangau-Bangau cluster reported 30 new cases involving 20 foreigners and 10 Malaysians, and the new Ramai-Ramai cluster reported 19 new cases.
In Selangor, 17 of the 38 new Covid-19 cases had travel history to Sabah. The remaining 11 cases were from the Jalan Meru cluster.
The Jalan Meru cluster, from which cases have been identified in three states – FT, Selangor and Johor – reported a total of 15 new cases today. Apart from the 11 cases in Selangor, one person tested positive from Kuala Lumpur and three from Johor.