No new positive Covid-19 cases in Sarawak

KUCHING: Sarawak continues to record no new positive Covid-19 cases keeping the total number of positive cases in the state at 552 since the first case was reported on March 13.

In a statement yesterday, the State Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) reported that two positive cases have recovered and discharged from Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) yesterday.

To-date, 501 persons or 90.76 per cent have recovered and discharged.

SDMC further said a total of 12 new Person-UnderInvestigation (PUIs)were reported and 27 cases pending laboratory results. The cumulative total of PUIs is 7,283 to-date.

The statement also reported that to-date there are 33 patients still under treatment at various hospitals in the state, with one at Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in SGH.

On Person-UnderSurveillance (PUS), there are 447 individuals who have checked into hotels for their compulsory quarantine Saturday. This brings the total of current PUS to 854 individuals at 38 hotels statewide. Those who have completed their quarantine number 12,225 to-date.

Meanwhile, 339 samples were taken at Belawai, Tanjung Manis on Friday, out of which 91 were negative and 248 are pending laboratory results.

As for monitoring for compliance of the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO), SDMC said that yesterday a total of 5,598 applications have been received by 28 district police offices for inter-district travel permits. This brings the cumulative figure of 88,359 applications, with 80,461 approved and 7,896 rejected.

It also informed that as of yesterday the Ministry of Local Government and Housing has received 22,959 business and industry notifications.