EIGHT new Covid-19 clusters were identified in Malaysia over a period of 24 hours, said Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. 

The director-general of health said five of them were linked to the workplace, two were community based and one, a high-risk group. 

Three of the clusters were in Selangor and one each in Kuala Lumpur, Pahang, Perak, Sarawak and Penang. 

They logged a combined 151 cases, 102 of them linked to workplaces.

Noor Hisham said the SS Lapan cluster at a factory in Selangor reported the most number of cases today, with 36 cases. 

The two other clusters in Selangor, Industri 19 and Industri Jalan Empat, both factories, reported 34 and 12 cases, respectively.

In Kuala Lumpur, the Jalan Putra Silang cluster at a service company reported eight cases and today’s final workplace cluster, the Indera Mahkota construction site, reported 10 cases. 

The two community-based clusters were in Sarawak and Perak, said Noor Hisham.

The Jalan Ho Pin cluster in Samarahan, Sarawak, stemming from a festive gathering, reported 14 cases, while the Kampung Mak Teh cluster in Batang Padang, Perak, spread by local transmission, reported 16.

The eighth cluster reported today, called the Lorong Murni cluster, is among a high-risk group in Penang. Twenty-one cases are linked to it.

The eight new clusters today bring the total clusters in the country to 1,111, with 499 still active. 

Of those active clusters, 93 reported new cases. 

Noor Hisham said clusters reporting high cases today were Perindustrian Pelepas with 55 cases, Tanjung Suria (47) and Tembok Tapah (41).

Eighteen clusters were resolved today, to make it 612 clusters to have been resolved. – February 25, 2021.