KUCHING district continues to have the most number of new Covid-19 infected cases in Sarawak, with the 319 today making up half of the 634 cases reported in the state. 

Samarahan district, listed by the state disaster management committee as the district with the second highest number of new positive cases, trails Kuching with just 64 cases. 

There were also 76 new cases reported in eight of Kuching’s active clusters but the majority of the district’s new infections were people identified to have come into “close contact” with an infected person.

With two reporting lung infections, none of the 634 cases today was considered serious, the committee said. 

It said 99% of them showed no symptoms or were mildly symptomatic. 

The committee said 465 of the cases detected today, or 73.34%, were listed as category 1 infection – no symptoms – and 167 cases, or 26.34%, listed as category 2 – mildly symptomatic.

The two cases with lung infection were serious enough to be listed as category 3 in the Health Ministry’s five-level clinical categories. 

There were also two more reported deaths due to Covid-19, bringing the state’s toll to 475.

Both the victims were males, aged 41 and 65, and died at the Sibu hospital. 

The committee said the 41 year-old had no history of co-morbidity while the 65 had suffered from hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary and liver diseases. – August 11, 2021.