8 new Sabah cases, new Semporna cluster today

19 Sep 2020 • 5:36 PM MYT
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Kota Kinabalu:

The Ministry of Health announced eight new Covid-19 cases in Sabah and a new cluster in Semporna on Saturday.

Three of the cases including a foreigner were screenings referred from Tawau Hospital to Semporna Hospital while another was a severe acute respiratory illness or Sari case at Tawau Hospital.

There was one pre-surgery case at Keningau Hospital, one community screening case in Tawau and one case in the Benteng cluster.

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The new cluster called the "Bakau cluster" had one new case and was started by its index patient, a Filipina who was announced as Malaysia's latest fatality on Friday. The cluster now has three active cases and 106 pending test results.

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