THE Ministry of Health expects a spike in the number of Covid-19 cases in the next two days as it awaits test results of detainees at three Immigration Detention Centres.

“Testing has been done and we are still awaiting the results in the next 24 hours,” director-general of health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said at his daily media briefing in Putrajaya today.

“We foresee that today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow we will see an increase in cases,” he added.

However, he said the virus has been contained with those tested positive to be treated, while those testing negative will be isolated and quarantined in the proper place.

Thus far, 227 positive cases have been detected at three immigration depots.

So far, 227 positive cases have been detected at the three detention centres.

A total of 1,536 samples have been taken from Bukit Jalil, with 126 returning positive.

Meanwhile, of the, 1,757 samples taken from Semenyih, 65 detainees were found to be positive, while one was a member of the administrative staff.

As for Sepang, 1,449 samples have been taken so far with 36 confirmed cases so far.

Meanwhile, a new cluster of 44 cases was detected at another construction site in Kuala Lumpur.

Noor Hisham said the cramped and confined living conditions of migrant workers is one of the possible reasons for the spread of virus.

In the detention centres, the nationalities of Covid-19 patients include Bangladeshi (53 cases), Indian (41), Indonesian (38), Myanma (37), Pakistani (28) and Chinese (17).

Others were from Nepal (3), Sri Lanka (2), the Philippines (1), Libya (1), Egypt (1) and Syria (1). – May 25, 2020.