KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia recorded 14 new Covid-19 cases as of noon today with 11 cases from the Sivagangga cluster in Kedah.
Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the remaining cases were an imported case involving a foreigner from the Philippines and two cases in Labuan.
The two cases were detected during screenings at the Labuan sea border involving a student from Sandakan and a tourist from Penampang in Sabah.
Dr Noor Hisham said eight of the eleven cases from the Patient-Under-Investigation (PUI) Sivagangga cluster had close contact with case 8,975, including a seven-year-old primary school pupil.
Case 8,975 is the first-generation case of the cluster.
"Another three cases were infected by case 8,796 including a 10-year-old pupil. Case 8,976 is also a first-generation case," he said in a statement today.
He said all the new patients have been admitted to the Alor Setar Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital for treatment and active case detection activities were being carried out by the district health office.
Cleaning and disinfection activities have been held at all premises including the school of the positive cases.
"As of noon today, 313 individuals linked to the cluster have been screened with 20 confirmed positive, 280 negative and 13 pending results.
"All the 20 confirmed cases involve 15 Malaysians and five non-Malaysians, and these are active cases, with no deaths reported thus far and no case at the intensive care unit (ICU)," Dr Noor Hisham added.
Meanwhile, with the new cases reported, Malaysia now has 8,999 confirmed Covid-19 cases of which 210 are active.
17 more recoveries were recorded, bringing the total to 8,664. As of now, two cases are receiving treatment at the ICU with one on ventilator support.
No new deaths were reported today, keeping the death toll at 125.