Labuan health department director Dr Ismuni Bohari said the relocation of the PPV, which starts today, is to accommodate the increasing number of people undergoing quarantine and suspected Covid-19 cases.

“The LC multipurpose hall is suitable for a large number of people, and we in the natural disaster management committee agreed to relocate the PPV to the PWD hall downtown today,” he said today.

Labuan has cumulative infections of 2,554, with one active cluster, Victoria Merdeka Cluster, as of yesterday.

Ismuni said those who have received appointment dates for the first or second dose of vaccination at the LC multipurpose hall should proceed to the PWD hall.

He said healthcare personnel had conducted mass Covid-19 screening on close contacts of the newly emerged Victoria Merdeka cluster, with several groups attending house-to-house visits during Aidilfitri celebrations.

“The mass screening led to an increasing number of people undergoing quarantine, and that is why we need a bigger hall as we want to contain the spread as quickly as possible,” he said.

He said that reopening of the LC multipurpose hall marked Labuan’s second quarantine centre, after the first one at the Bahagian Teknologi Pendidikan Tinggi hostel at Jalan Sungai Lada.

Labuan has three vaccination centres – at the Komplek Anak Yatim Darul Kifayah’s hall, Labuan Nucleus Hospital and now at the PWD hall.