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New cluster involving plantation workers’ quarters detected in Bintulu

Medical personnel carrying out the ACD exercise

KUCHING (July 23): The Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) declared one new cluster today involving an oil palm plantation workers’ quarters in Bintulu which had been placed under the Enhanced Movement Control Order (EMCO).

SDMC said the cluster, dubbed as the Jalan Pesisir Bintulu-Miri Cluster, is a work place cluster which infected 25 individuals out of 312 screened, while the rest were still waiting for their lab test results.

Apart from that, the committee announced the end of four clusters today, namely the Sungai Parik Cluster and Banting Cluster in Sri Aman, Melatai Cluster in Kapit, and the Jalan Baru Tatau-Bintulu Cluster in Tatau.

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