KOTA KINABALU: Pitas recorded a sharp spike of new Covid-19 cases on July 8, with 128 cases in the past 24 hours.
State Covid-19 spokesperson Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun in his Twitter post said a funeral ceremony in the recent cluster of Kluster Tanjung Pitas led to the infection.
“A funeral ceremony in Pitas (Tanjung Pitas cluster) in June led to 126 villagers being infected, resulting in sharp increase in Sabah’s daily number of new cases today, 279!
“Pitas 128, Kota Kinabalu 47, Sandakan 16, Beaufort 15, Tawau 14, Putatan 13, and 11 districts recorded zero cases,” he said.
The case index of the cluster, a 26-year-old housewife is believed to have triggered the fishing community cluster.