PETALING JAYA: A new Covid-19 cluster has emerged from students returning to Malaysia from Indonesia on April 16, says the Health Ministry.
said the cluster consisted 43 students who had returned from Temboro, which has been declared a red zone in Magetan, Indonesia."This shows that the government's actions to take steps to quarantine and screen all Malaysians who are returning from overseas is right."This will ensure that all imported cases will not infect Malaysians locally," he said during his daily press briefing on Sunday .
Dr Noor Hisham said patients who are positive but do not show any symptoms would probably not be chosen for the clinical trial. He said nine ministry hospitals which are taking part in the World Health Organisation "Solidarity Trial" are ready to start recruiting research participants from among the Covid-19 patients who fulfill set criterias.
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