NSTnation Health Ministry: All tabligh attendees must undergo Covid19 test
Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the ministry will work with the police to track down all the attendees of the event that was held from Feb 27 to March 1 at Sri Petaling mosque.“Those found positive will be admitted to the hospital, while those found negative; we will follow with another treatment,” he said during daily press conference on the updates of Covid-19.“From 1,518 positive cases of Covid-19, 62 per cent were from tabligh cluster,” he said.
It was reported earlier that some 16,000 participants attended the event, however a committee member of the gathering later clarified that only 12,500 people attended the event.
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