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Unisza Gong Badak campus ordered shut for 14 days over 16 Covid-19 cases

University closed for sanitisation work, risk assessment to be performed if any individual on grounds from red zone

Updated 5 years ago · Published on 18 May 2021 12:25PM

Unisza Gong Badak campus ordered shut for 14 days over 16 Covid-19 cases
Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin’s Gong Badak campus has been closed in accordance with Section 18(1)(d) of the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988. – Bernama pic, May 18, 2021

KUALA TERENGGANU – The Gong Badak campus of Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin in Kuala Nerus has been ordered to close for 14 days until May 30 after 16 Covid-19 cases were detected at the campus.

Terengganu Health director Dr Nor Azimi Yunus said the campus has been closed to facilitate sanitation work.

“The campus was ordered to close in accordance with Section 18(1)(d) of the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988.

“If there is any staff or individual from the red zone, a risk assessment must be made and those with symptoms should not be allowed to enter the campus,” she said in a statement today. – Bernama, May 18, 2021

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