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"The cases detected are isolated and treated in hospitals to ensure that the Covid-19 virus does not continue to spread in our community," MoH director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah

This latest development came about after Minister of Health detected 26 cases of Covid-19 infections in the area

Subsequently, a total of 28 people linked to this cluster were found and tested, from which the dozen positive cases were found. Nine were found negative, while the remaining seven were still awaiting their test results.

Retail Group Malaysia managing director Tan Hai Hsin estimated that retail store casualties will hit 51,000 by next January.

Given the current testing capacity of around 20,000 tests a day, some estimate it will take six months to a year to complete examining all the workers.

He realised something was wrong when he woke up choking and spluttering in the pre-dawn darkness on Thursday in RR Venkatapuram village, just 250m from the plant owned by South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd.

The group said it has part-varied RM13 million from its 2019 rights issue proceeds, which was originally meant for the F&B expansion and the revamp of its Centerpoint Seremban shopping mall.

This brought the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 6,535.

"This is worse than Pearl Harbor, this is worse than the World Trade Center. There's never been an attack like this.”

The researchers, however, said the findings were preliminary and “based on only a small number of infected men” and that more research has to be conducted to find out if “sexual transmission might play a role in the Covid-19 pandemic”.