Most Sabah clusters involve foreigners: Masidi

22 Oct 2020 • 9:17 PM MYT
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Kota Kinabalu: Most of Sabah’s Covid-19 clusters involved foreigners, said the Sabah government’s spokesman for the crisis, Datuk Masidi Manjun.

In his daily briefing Thursday, Masidi said 27 of the state’s 37 clusters involved foreigners, who also accounted for 1,236 cases or 13.3 per cent of the overall cases.

Masidi also said several squatter colonies had many Covid-19 cases, namely Kg Bangau-Bangau, Kg Selamat, Kg Panji, Kg Bakau and Kg Air, all in Semporna, as well as the Telipok settlement, Gaya island and Kg Numbak, all in Kota Kinabalu.

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