SIBU – Sibu Central Market here will be closed for two days beginning today after a Sibu Municipal Council Public Health and Services Unit employee on duty at the market tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday.
Council chairman Clarence Ting Ing Horh said the closure is to enable sanitisation work to be conducted at the market and allow employees and traders affected to undergo screening tests.
“All traders at the Sibu Central Market need to undergo (Covid-19 screening) tests as soon as possible to curb the spread of the pandemic,” he said in a statement yesterday.
He said all close contacts of the employee and those with Covid-19 symptoms were asked to undergo swab tests at the nearest government health clinics or at the drive-thru Health Ministry’s screening centre at the Pustaka Negeri Sarawak building here.
In addition, the council has also shut the Public Health and Service Unit at Wisma Sanyan here immediately until further notice, although critical services to the public are still running. – Bernama, February 1, 2021
