A 48-year-old British national who tested negative for Covid-19 died while in quarantine in Miri.

The man, identified as Thomas Holmes, died on June 12 but police only disclosed the death yesterday.

In a statement, Miri district police chief Lim Meng Seah said the project manager arrived in Miri on June 4 from Kuala Lumpur and was placed in mandatory quarantine in one of the town’s quarantine-listed hotels.

Lim, in a statement, said when Holmes complained of being sick, he was immediately sent to the Miri hospital, where he died.

A Covid-19 swab test showed he was negative of the virus.

Lim said a post-mortem “will be carried out soon” to determine the cause of death. – June 17, 2020.