PUTRAJAYA: The Ministry of Health (MOH) continues to be monitoring about 3,000 tabligh (Islamic motion) worshippers who had attended a rally on the Sri Petaling Jamek Mosque.
Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (pix) mentioned among the many explanation why the three,000 individuals had not been screened have been that those that had gone overseas had not returned since attending the gathering.
“Maybe, some have nonetheless not returned, some might have gone overseas, for instance to Sulawesi and India. They left for 40 days and haven’t returned.
“We are nonetheless monitoring and we now have the information. It is hoped that once they return they are going to be screened and quarantined for 14 days,“ he instructed a Covid-19 each day media convention, right here in the present day.
Noor Hisham mentioned 19,032 contributors of the gathering on the Sri Petaling Jamek Mosque had been screened to date with 15,970 samples taken.
‘’There are 1,465 constructive instances among the many Sri Petaling Jamek Mosque worshippers, There are 10,213 adverse instances and 4,292 pending instances. About 3,000 individuals have but to be screened,’’ he mentioned.
Noor Hisham mentioned Selangor recorded a excessive variety of instances and the sources have been the tahfiz and madrasah (Islamic faculties) some whom had attended the tabligh gathering on the Sri Petaling Jamek Mosque.
He mentioned one of many explanation why Selangor had the best constructive instances was as a result of 50% of the instances have been linked to the worshippers who had gathered on the Sri Petaling Jamek Mosque, and now it had unfold to the Islamic faculties.
‘’So, now we see Hulu Langat has 300 constructive instances so far. There are about 600 instances in Selangor and half of the instances got here from Hulu Langat,’’ he mentioned.
The variety of instances in Hulu Langat had gone as much as 300 instances from 287 instances beforehand. There are 90 instances in Kampung Sungai Lui together with 25 instances that are linked to the worshippers on the Sri Petaling Jamek Mosque and shut contacts (65 instances).
As of in the present day, Noor Hisham mentioned 18 constructive Covid-19 instances have been detected on the One City Plaza Tower.
As such, he really useful a group enforcement in each housing space to make sure localised cleanliness to verify the unfold of Covid-19.
“We can improve it additional and alternatively we’re wanting intently at hotspot areas. If there is a rise of 10, 20 and even 40 instances inside a day, that could be a signal for us to return in and improve the Movement Control Order (MCO) in that space,’’ he mentioned. — Bernama
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