Covid-19: 150 KL wholesale market workers to be screened after two test positive


A file picture of Bomba personnel disinfecting the KL wholesale market on April 3, 2020. – Bernama

KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 150 workers from the Kuala Lumpur wholesale market in Batu Caves will have to undergo Covid-19 screening on Sunday (April 5) and self-quarantine themselves for 14 days after two workers recently tested positive for the disease.

"The workers who went for screening are from 30 different stalls. They have to stop operating until April 18," said Kuala Lumpur Vegetable Wholesalers Association president Wong Keng Fatt, adding that the results will be known in three to five days.

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