SARAWAK’S latest positive Covid-19 cases today are four members of a Kuching family in the Bah Arnab cluster.

The family went into quarantine on October 8 after being exposed to the coronavirus from four other infected family members.

The four who are now positive – two adults and two young boys - were negative in their first test done on October 6.

The state Health Department ordered them to go to a designated quarantine centre two days later, after three other family members had positive results.

The index case of the Bah Arnab cluster is a male family member described by the disaster committee as a “regular flyer” between Sarawak and Sabah for business.

He took the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction test at the Kuching international airport on arrival from Kota Kinabalu on October 2.

But since it was a Friday, and no tests are done on the weekend, he was simply ordered to undergo a home quarantine.

When the test was done on October 5, he was found positive.

The committee said the four who tested positive today were exposed to the virus from close contact with infected family members between October 2 and 6.

While the index case has been categorised as an imported case (in to the state), the other members of his family are local transmissions.

With this, the Bah Arnab cluster has a total of eight people infected, out of 36 people screened in this cluster so far. – October 17, 2020.