Malaysia

20 Miri Hospital staff infected with Covid-19

Most infected health and medical staff come from the hospital's emergency unit

Updated 5 years ago · Published on 22 Jan 2021 8:25PM

20 Miri Hospital staff infected with Covid-19

by Stephen Then

MIRI – Twenty Miri hospital health and medical staff have been infected with Covid-19 while treating another 238 positive patients.

State Health Director Dr Chin Zin Hing said the affected 20 staff are mostly from the emergency unit.

“We are carrying out tests on about 200 close contacts of these 20 infected staff now,” he said in Kuching during a media briefing.

Miri Hospital has already been declared off-limits to the public and it will only attend to emergency cases.

Sarawak is seeing a daily surge in infections statewide as well as new deaths since January 10. –The Vibes, January 22, 2021

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