KOTA KINABALU – Sabah reported another school cluster in its east coast district of Tawau, bringing the total number of school clusters to six this month.
Sabah Covid-19 spokesman Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun today said the index case involved a 16-year-old male student who showed symptoms since January 18.
“A screening was done on January 21 and the boy was found positive via the RTK Antigen test.
“Further screening on 38 close contacts revealed 14 new cases, with 22 now awaiting their test results and one negative,” he said during the daily Covid-19 briefing, today.
Masidi further said most of the patients are Categories 1 and 2, and all of them are now undergoing self-isolation and treatment, said Masidi.
Five other school clusters in Sabah, which were reported earlier include the Jalan Bypass Kologon cluster in Kundasang; Pandan cluster in Putatan, Jalan Pertukangan cluster in Sandakan; Puri Ranau cluster in Ranau and the Jalan Kepayan Lama cluster in Tambunan.
Sabah today recorded 314 new Covid-19 cases, a spike of 196 cases from 118 yesterday.
According to the Sabah Health Department, today’s surge in infections is due to the positive cases deriving from close contacts (143 cases) and existing active clusters (64 cases). – The Vibes, January 25, 2022
