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KUCHING (April 14): A new Covid-19 cluster in Bintulu dubbed the Jepak Cluster has been declared by the State Health Department with 42 cases detected so far, said the State Disaster Management Committee (SDMC).
It said this community cluster involved infections among residents from around Kampung Jepak in Bintulu who attended a wedding ‘doa selamat’ (prayer ceremony) at the village on April 3.
“The index case was a woman from Kampung Jepak who had gone for a screening for symptomatic individual at the Bintulu Health Clinic.
“She was confirmed positive for Covid-19 through the rT-PCR test on April 7,” it said in a statement.
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