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Kuala Lumpur, Sep 17 (TIWN) The Malaysian Health Ministry announced on Thursday that a new Covid-19 cluster was detected in Sabah state, traced to a woman who had been screened prior to being admitted to a hospital, with two testing positive so far.
Health Ministry Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah said in a press statement that five of the new cases are imported and 16 are local transmissions.
Health authorities detected one new case cluster in the northern Borneo state of Sabah, traced to a woman who had been screened for COVID-19 prior to being admitted to a hospital, with two testing positive so far.
Another 15 patients have been released after recovery, bringing the total cured and discharged to 9,250, or 92 percent of all cases.
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