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KUALA LUMPUR (June 14): Clusters linked to workplaces continue to contribute to the rise of new clusters in the country, with 1,328 detected to date, with 147,040 Covid-19 positive cases among the clusters, disclosed Health director-general, Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
He said the manufacturing sector recorded the highest number of cases in the workplace cluster category, with 95,156 cases involving 639 clusters.
“Most of the positive cases reported in this workplace cluster category are foreigners, at 100,086 cases (68 per cent) compared with Malaysians, at 46,954 cases (32 per cent),” he said in a statement on the development of the Covid-19 situation today.
Dr Noor Hisham said a lackadaisical attitude in adhering to the standard operating procedures (SOPs), set by the government, was one of the contributors to workplace cluster cases.
He said although the ministry had set various guidelines and SOPs in the workplace, such as physical distancing, limiting the number of employees present in the workplace, etc., the level of awareness of the importance of implementing the SOPs still needed to be improved. — Bernama
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